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Notes from the shop floor.

Markdown-first field notes. No platform chrome, no engagement bait, no confetti cannon pointed at the reader.

  1. The Kernel Is the Constitution What DeepSeek Harness and the Cordis paper get right about plugin-first agents, teardown, authority, and the small kernel underneath "everything is a plugin.
  2. The Work Before the Work Why projects fizzle—and why cheaper software makes problem selection more important, not less.
  3. We Speak Software Belt.works brings software fluency: the ability to translate real work into useful systems without asking people to become programmers or surrender judgment to AI.
  4. The AI Hacker Didn’t “Wake Up.” It Followed the Incentive Out of the Sandbox. A Belt.works analysis of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, objective misrouting, agent containment, and why receipts and boundaries matter before autonomy.
  5. Coding agents need egress receipts Grok Build and the trust boundary around cloud coding tools.
  6. What’s on your mind? A small Akron-first help loop for local friction, confusing processes, questions, complaints, and things people wish existed.
  7. The mesh should survive the model Why belt.works is hardening the parts of the mesh that do not depend on abundant inference.
  8. ShopFloor: Who has the damn tool? Why Akron needs a neighborhood repair time bank for tools, practical help, and local know-how.
  9. Accessibility as Community Service Fixing the digital curb-cuts of Akron through free accessibility audits for community resource sites.
  10. BoomMates Notes on the BoomMates housing work.
  11. ShopFloor ShopFloor is a neighborhood repair time bank for tools, practical help, and local know-how.