August 2026
Everything Notes from the Bench published in August 2026.
6 notes
- The Drift Test
- August 30, 2026
I'm not sure what's worse, longarm drift or agent drift. But I'm pretty glad we have a test for it.
- Failure Model Maintenance
- August 22, 2026
Thoughts on a particular AI competency that appears to be becoming AI's competency.
- Managing Drift with a Procedurally Generated Color Palette
- August 20, 2026
In my never-ending quest to prevent AI agent drift, I came up with a plan to procedurally generate my entire color palette from a single color seed (and a few extra dials), and then wrote a check to ban the use of color literals anywhere else in the codebase. And it's kind of magical.
- AI;DR
- August 18, 2026
I'm breaking my own rule, but I think this could work.
- Governance is all you need
- August 11, 2026
If you want to move faster than lightning with AI on a large ecosystem, you need a tight feedback loop and drift control.
- Getting Started Is the Hard Part
- August 2, 2026
Two years between registering the LLC and knowing what it would sell. The first note from the Bench, on finally starting.