Tag

measurement

Instrumentation, provenance and the discipline of publishing a number you can point at. The pages here are mostly about how a figure was arrived at rather than what it turned out to be.

• ConceptToken economics and context budgets

  A session's cost is not its length. It is roughly its length squared, and that changes every decision about it.

• ConceptEvals, gates and acceptance

  A gate is a command and an exit code. Everything else is an opinion with a schedule.

• ConceptAgent observability

  The question is not whether it is logging. It is whether you can ask something nobody planned for and get an answer.

• ArticleWhat an autonomous run actually costs

  Nobody publishes the bill. This is the whole of one, across every run in the corpus, with the money that bought nothing left in.

• ArticleThe nudge that sat below the median

  Every autonomous run puts a ceiling on what one session may spend, and almost every ceiling was picked by feel. The ledger can settle it. The awkward part is that the number you most need is the one a ceiling deletes.

• ArticleThe ledger that lied

  An autonomous run keeps a record of itself, and that record is what every later decision gets made from. This corpus holds a population of sessions whose record is empty in four places and full in the fifth. The shape of the hole turned out to be a code path, and the number it produced was the reassuring one.