The Craftsman's Exoskeleton: AI as a Mechanical Amplifier, Not an Oracle

A raw retrospective after six years of systems engineering and LLM evolution: why treating AI as an oracle incurs an exponential ‘oracle tax’, and how the systems craftsman uses AI not as an end in itself, but as a grounded exploration lever guided by first principles.

September 19, 2026 · 30 min

From Raw Notes to Published Post: My Augmented Pair-Authoring Workflow

A practical breakdown of how I collaborate with LLMs to translate raw engineering notes into structured, bilingual articles without losing human voice or technical accuracy.

August 4, 2026 · 3 min