How I use a revisable portrait of my patterns to build agents that add counterweights without diagnosing, deciding, or thinking for me.
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Blog I-9
by Felipe Abreu
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If You Think AI Is Just a Chatbot, You Started with the Wrong Limit
AI can converse, execute, validate, organize evidence, and decide within policies. The useful limit starts with the problem, not the chat window.
ChatGPT Already Knows a Lot About You. Before You Trust It, Make It Show Its Work
How I turned old conversations into testable hypotheses about my writing, decisions, and way of working—and then into contracts for a personal AI harness.
A Hypothesis Does Not Become Fact Because AI Repeated It
How I use a Markdown and Git wiki to separate hypotheses, decisions, and syntheses before silent inferences start governing the system.
An AI expert since the day before yesterday
Pseudo-experts turn recent discovery into authority. The antidote is to look for artifacts, consequences, review, limits, and responsibility.
You Wrote It, Didn't Read It—and Then It Bit You: AI Doesn't Sign for You
Real cases show why reviewing AI-generated content isn't polish: it's authorship, accountability, and control before publishing or deciding.
Writing with AI Didn't Make Me Less of an Author. It Made It Possible to Keep Writing
The problem isn't using AI to write, but outsourcing voice, thought, and responsibility. How an authorial system preserves direction and consistency.
Generic Agents Can Be Your Company's Worst First Encounter with AI
A ready-made solution can fail by ignoring process, data, and accountability—and teach your company to reject the AI that could actually help.
AI Forgot the Decision I Had Already Made
A long conversation nearly made my posts depend on the redesign. The problem was leaving a critical decision too dependent on transient context.
Your Company Doesn't Need to Figure Out Where to Put AI
Where to use AI in the company? A practical guide to finding bottlenecks and choosing between process, automation, AI assistance, agents, and human decision-making.