September 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Ballast declines 24 of its 89 golden questions on purpose and answers the other 65 with citations. As of the August 16 ledger the answer-or-decline call was right on all 89, and one of the 65 answers was unfaithful to its sources. Where…
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June 27, 2026 · 5 min read
I built a self-healing RAG pipeline, a guardrails gateway, and an eval gate as one system, then threw 44 adversarial questions at it. Zero hallucinations, because the behavior that matters most is refusal. Here is how trust got built int…
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June 6, 2026 · 8 min read
A small ARM box that started as a local LLM experiment and ended up a self-governing node: private retrieval, a resident agent under a written constitution, a code-enforced safety fence, and a nightly job where it audits itself and files…
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