May 2026

• Runtime Isolation Is Not Governance — May 21, 2026
  AI agent runtimes solve the execution problem, but serious autonomous systems also need governance, authorisation, escalation, and provenance.

• The Potatoes Were Never The Product — May 20, 2026
  Parmentier's potato strategy shows how ethical product promotion can create discovery, trust, and perceived value without relying on fake urgency or hype.

• AI Can Generate Software. Reality Still Gets A Vote. — May 14, 2026
  AI-assisted software has lowered the barrier to building, but real systems still need structured review, operational judgement, and respect for consequence.

• Verified Provenance for The Vault — May 12, 2026
  How The Vault now publishes cryptographically verifiable provenance records for each article, and why that matters in an age of synthetic content.

• Making The Vault Easier for Machines to Read — May 11, 2026
  Why The Vault now generates a search index and validates article metadata while keeping Markdown as the canonical source.

• Why I Moved This Site From WordPress to Markdown — May 10, 2026
  Why this site now treats Markdown in Git as the canonical source for readers, search engines, and AI systems.

• Drift is the default condition. Coherence is the achievement. — May 7, 2026
  Why drift is the default condition of systems, and why coherence has to be actively maintained.

• By Inches — May 3, 2026
  A practical reflection on how systems drift through small, repeated deviations before the cost becomes visible.