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Reasonable Machines

Every day we interact with machines capable of incredible reasoning, here we discuss machines whose behavior is understandable, governed, and reasonable.

Agent Failure Modes Are Architecture Decisions

Agent Failure Modes Are Architecture Decisions

Error cascades and undocumented decisions end regulated pilots, and both are settled at the first commit: what a buyer can check in the architecture long before an agent runs.

By Robert Griffin · Aug 19, 2026

Which Memory Layer Are You Buying

Which Memory Layer Are You Buying

Two systems both called memory can owe entirely different obligations: one holds state for a single run, the other has to be viewable, removable, tenant-isolated, and auditable years later.

By Robert Griffin · Aug 31, 2026

Decision-Level Review Reports

Drift That Never Flips a Decision

Decision-level review clears a release when every recommendation holds, even as the score distribution underneath has moved - and that gap compounds across thousands of decisions.

By Robert Griffin · Aug 11, 2026

Judge Gates Hero

The Judge That Gates Your Agents

A judge with unmeasured preferences turns a regression gate into selection pressure, and swapping positions plus majority voting cost far less than three retrains of drift.

By Robert Griffin · Jul 31, 2026

Your Evaluation Judge Is a Component Hero

Your Evaluation Judge Is a Component

An evaluator that has never been calibrated or attacked reports its own blind spots, and every governance figure downstream inherits them. Treat the judge as a registered component.

By Robert Griffin · Jul 28, 2026

Declared authority hero image

Declared Authority Is Not Enforced Authority

An authority inventory is only as honest as the engineer who filled it in, which is why the record that survives an audit is the one a runtime writes while enforcing its own boundaries.

By Robert Griffin · Jul 10, 2026

Native grounding bundles retrieval policy

Draw the Adapter Boundary Around Search

Native grounding bundles retrieval policy, provider choice, and cost behind one model call. A search adapter puts those controls, plus per-query telemetry, back on your side of the seam.

By Robert Griffin · Jul 2, 2026

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