Independent fieldwork publication
Work that
stays connected.
Practical fieldwork on how AI-assisted research, decisions, evidence and systems carry understanding forward as the work changes.
Founding fieldwork
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How OpenAI Supports Inspiral Fieldwork
The concrete roles ChatGPT Work, connected context and Codex play in Inspiral fieldwork—and the human authority they do not replace.
Knowledge & Context Engineering
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What Must Survive Between AI-Assisted Tasks
A lightweight handoff for recovering the evidence, decisions, current state, limitations and authority a later AI-assisted task needs to reuse work safely.
Knowledge & Context Engineering
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Why Content Generation Was Not the Hard Problem
Why faster AI content generation did not solve ShiftBy's harder problem: preserving evidence, decisions, current state and context across continuing AI-assisted work.
Knowledge & Context Engineering
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Inspiral
Exploring continuity of governed knowledge, context and meaning across AI-assisted work.
Current state: Active explorationAI Security Assurance
Repository-grounded experiments in assurance, testing and accountable AI engineering.
Current state: Active practiceEvidence before
certainty.
Current state is distinguished from historical rationale. Evidence strength is made visible. Limitations are retained. AI assists; humans retain publication authority.
Evidence
From sources, code, runs and decisions.
Bounded claims
What the evidence supports—and what it doesn’t.
Fieldwork
Context, decisions, trade-offs and intent in the work.
Public learning
Published for others to build on, challenge and extend.