The Agent-Skill Boundary: When Autonomous Behaviors Become Skills

Agents accumulate autonomous behaviors over time - ‘always do X before Y’, ‘if you see Z then do W’. These instructions eat context budget, drift across invocations, and can’t be observed or tested. How to recognize when an autonomous behavior is a skill waiting to be extracted, and the layered model that makes the boundary clear.

March 29, 2026 · map[name:Blackwell Systems]

Go Interfaces: The Type System Feature You Implement By Accident

You write a struct with a Write method. Three months later, you discover it implements io.Writer. You never declared this. How did it happen? Exploring Go’s implicit interfaces and the power of accidental implementation.

January 22, 2026 · map[name:Blackwell Systems]