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Determinism

Machines and institutions that do the same thing every time, what that sameness is worth, and where it breaks against an open world.

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  2. articleThe River and the CanalEN中한

    Agents explore the rugged world; workflows are what exploration leaves behind. Chess, StarCraft, a factory under the sea, and why I build an engine.

    AgentsGame AIFractalsAbstractionDeterminismDurable executionTrustFactoriesPost-scarcityLegibilityFinanceInsuranceChessGoStarCraft

    51 min read · 16 chapters

  3. articleSource Code Is the New Assembly

    Closing the trilogy. The artifact you author is no longer source code. It is a typed, verifiable object that carries meaning. Code becomes a lowering target.

    AI-assisted engineeringAbstractionDeterminismFormal methodsHaskellCompilersProvenanceType systems

    27 min read · 15 chapters

  4. articleTraffic Replay as a Security Primitive

    WAF tuning is a guessing game because you cannot reproduce the traffic that triggered the rule. Deterministic replay changes that.

    Applied securityWAF and traffic inspectionEdge systemsReliabilityDeterminismDeveloper tooling

    12 min read · 8 chapters

  5. articleWhy We Built a Haskell Package Manager in Rust

    hx is a fast, opinionated Haskell toolchain built in Rust, following the playbook astral.sh used to modernize Python.

    Developer toolingProgramming languagesDeterminismOpen sourceHaskellRustType systems

    19 min read · 8 chapters

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