Articles — Robert Beckner

• Articles
• Advising: A Critical Finding in the PIE Non-Custodial Compute Model
• Benchmark-Driven Development: Beyond TDD for AI Systems
• Benchmark-Driven Development: A Framework for AI System Configuration
• Blurring Good and Evil Weakens Society
• Activate: Four Years of Building for the People Who Knock the Doors
• Building SEOReport: From Heuristics to Launch
• Chicken Broth Benefits: Why Properly Made Broth Feels So Restorative
• Creatine Monohydrate in 2026: Benefits and Mitochondria
• Exploring Decision Models with a Lightweight Benchmark
• DRC: Dignity, Responsibility, and Clarity as a Framework for Ethical Analysis
• Emoting Without Emotion: Why Machine Displays of Affect Are Performance by Construction
• How to Turn AI Gains Into Compounding Infrastructure
• Intelligence Cannot Obey: Judgment, Authority, and What a Refusal Shows
• Kitsune2: Lookups Got 251x Faster, the Update Path 33x, and Gossip Started 15x Sooner
• MTPLX on an M1 Ultra: The 25 tok/s Tune That Served 16.5
• Pretext: The Missing Primitive for Programmable UI Layout
• Prompt Caching Mistakes Can Cost Your Organization Nearly 6x More on Every AI Turn
• Public Reasoning, Public Office, and the Plea to Ignorance
• Qwen 3.8-27B on an M1 Ultra: From 12.1 to 20.3 tok/s by Measuring Everything
• Simulation Theory: How Believing Life Is Artificial Collapses Morality
• The Last CLI: Rebuilding the Base 51 of My Tools Were Built Against
• The Purpose of Knowledge Is To Know
• A Late Afternoon Debate with Grok: The Purpose of Knowledge
• Origins: How "The Purpose of Knowledge is to Know" Came to Be