Matthew Foutch, a Senior Manufacturing Engineer using AI agents to build and maintain a real, working “second brain,” writing about what that’s actually like.
This is a small, early trial: real milestones, real mistakes, and the habits that actually make an AI-maintained system trustworthy over time — written for anyone curious what this looks like in practice, not just in theory. See About for more on what this is and isn’t, and Articles for the current writing.
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Covers August 2026 · published August 31, 2026
The Memory Fix That Broke Its Own Alarm
A memory-containment fix that worked, until something built on top of it discovered the fix had a silent second failure mode, and a live config-drift bug hiding inside that one.
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