FAI Newsletter

FAI Newsletter

Decision Quality

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The Senior-Engineer Tax: What an AI Incident Actually Costs to Diagnose

Sep 10, 2026

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4 min read

The Senior-Engineer Tax: What an AI Incident Actually Costs to Diagnose

Four numbers from your last AI incident. The first is the one everyone reaches for, and the least useful of the four.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson

Agent Debugging

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Triage by Stability: Deciding Which AI Decisions Deserve a Second Look

Sep 3, 2026

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4 min read

Triage by Stability: Deciding Which AI Decisions Deserve a Second Look

You can't review every decision an agent makes. Here's how to find the ones actually worth your time.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson

Decision Quality

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From Trace to Behavior: Instrumenting the Signals That Matter

Aug 27, 2026

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6 min read

From Trace to Behavior: Instrumenting the Signals That Matter

What to capture when a bad AI decision doesn't throw an error.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson

Decision Quality

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The Solo-Team AI Reliability Stack: What to Instrument First post

Aug 20, 2026

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6 min read

The Solo-Team AI Reliability Stack: What to Instrument First post

Bad AI decisions don't throw errors. Five layers of instrumentation, in the order they earn their keep, for teams running production AI with no ML engineer.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson
Catching Wasted Spend: A Practical AI Cost Audit

Aug 13, 2026

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6 min read

Catching Wasted Spend: A Practical AI Cost Audit

A cost fix changes what the work costs. It doesn't change how much work the system decides to do. Four checks for finding out where your savings actually went.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson

Decision Quality

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Evaluating AI Behavior Tools: A Buyer's Checklist

Aug 6, 2026

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6 min read

Evaluating AI Behavior Tools: A Buyer's Checklist

Five questions to put to any tool in a category that hasn't standardized yet, and the one artifact that makes a demo tell you something: an incident you already solved.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson
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