Topics

What Notes from the Bench has written about, and how much of it there is.

• Agent drift

  • 4 notes

  What happens when an agent forgets a convention it was told about once, and the machinery that catches it before it ships.

• Design systems

  • 2 notes

  Color, components, and the rules that keep an ecosystem looking like one thing rather than eleven.

• AI governance

  • 4 notes

  Decisions written down, given a rule, and backed by a check that actually fires, so AI agents follow the same rules every time. A rule without enforcement is just guidance.

• Homelab

  • 3 notes

  The rack in the office closet: seven Raspberry Pis running Kubernetes, and the infrastructure that keeps them honest.

• Product updates

  • 1 note

  What's new in Whittle Labs products, starting with Whittle Sift: features, redesigns, and the reasoning behind them.

• Solo founder

  • 2 notes

  Starting a company alone, including the two years it took to work out what it would sell.

• Working with AI

  • 6 notes

  How I actually work with Claude day to day: running several sessions at once, where it fails, and what I do about it.