The Three Misses

Written with Claude. The field visit, the data analysis, the issue filing, and this blog post were all done in one session. The Core Problem The worst thing an AI pipeline can do is put a plausible falsehood in a delivered report that nobody catches. Not a typo. Not a formatting issue. A statement that reads like a field observation, passes review because it sounds right, and lands in front of a client as fact. ...

March 24, 2026 · 7 min · 1297 words · Chris Hughes

All You Need Is Kill: A PCA Engineer's Loop

Inspired by All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka—a story about a soldier trapped in a time loop who uses each death to get better at surviving. Part 1: The Death The war is already happening. Has been for decades. The battlefield is commercial real estate. Office towers, hotels, warehouses, medical buildings. Every one of them hiding secrets. ...

January 20, 2026 · 11 min · 2192 words · Chris Hughes

When Your Reference Implementation Becomes the Real Architecture

I built Memory Bank for my home infrastructure repo. Three months later, I finally applied it to the system that actually makes money. Then during a real project, the whole data architecture changed.

January 15, 2026 · 4 min · 828 words · Chris Hughes