Making applied AI systems easier to understand, inspect and build.
Everyone says AI. Pass it through a prism and it comes apart into the parts that do the work, with a person at every one. Pick a colour to read about it.
A beam labelled AI enters a glass prism and leaves as seven bands: the model, instructions, context, tools, the harness, permissions and evaluation. A small figure marked a human, at every stage, runs through every band: a person chooses the model, writes the instructions, decides what it sees and what it can reach, sets when the loop stops, decides what needs approval and defines what good means. Scrolling passes the bands through a lens and a second prism, which gather them back into one beam: a system you understand.
at every stage
Cut the claims. Keep the craft.
I build with AI, test what happens, and explain what I learn in plain language. Each piece keeps its evidence, its plain words and its checks. The hype gets snipped.
Where are you in the system?
Eight questions an applied AI system has to answer, in the order the answers tend to depend on each other. Each one is an article and a storyboard. Follow the sequence, or enter where the question becomes useful.
Ideas that cut across the map.
For everyone AI promoted to builder without asking. (Including me.)
Post-mortems written before the incident, cheat sheets and maps, for the part after the demo works.
Test the idea.
Where the explanations get built and find out whether they hold.