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Notes from building the operational layer behind modern businesses. Websites, systems, automation, agentic AI, the places handoff breaks, and the work of making teams self-sufficient. Written by Tom Hirst.

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The Gates You Build to Hide Your AI’s Mistakes
When you add conditional logic to supervise an AI, you stop seeing what the model actually knows. A field note on teaching context over constraining behaviour.
April 7, 2026
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