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Verification
6 posts on verification, guides and lab notes from real runs on hardware we own. New posts land here automatically. Start anywhere, or grab the copy-paste prompts that ship with them.
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My agent roadmaps did not prove the work was done
I wrote agent roadmaps, but my September 18 records showed a separate problem. Plans, delivered work, and saved time each need their own evidence.
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143 pull requests. Zero dollars.
In the week of 2026-08-31 the fleet merged 143 product pull requests. Stripe still read zero. Throughput is the tell, not the win.
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Ollama JSON: Empty Results Are Not Failed Requests
An empty Ollama result can mean no matches or a broken request. I test the response parser so local extraction failures cannot pass as clean results.
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A kill rule that expires is not a kill rule
I wrote a kill rule for a paid-path test. Zero orders landed. The card expired into an archive and the dashboard still said ACTIVE.
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My agent wrote 126 empty pages and every gate passed
One commit wrote 130 knowledge pages. 126 were the same four sentences with the title swapped. Schema checks, link checks and orphan checks all passed.
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How to Verify Work Done by AI Agents: 5 Falsifiable Claims
Your agent said "done" and the file is unchanged? A clean exit proves it ran, not that the work landed. Record every completion as one of 5 falsifiable claims and let a checker turn the report red.
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