J. Michael Constanshttps://constans.devResearch-grounded systems architecture. Deterministic, audit-ready AI infrastructure for the enterprise.Token Econhttps://constans.dev/writing/token-econ/llmeconomicssnarkhttps://constans.dev/writing/token-econ/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:33:30 -0700My current architecture methodologyhttps://constans.dev/writing/my-current-architecture-methodology/Architecture? Er...

Architecture is one of those words that means different things to different people, and carries different emotional valence according to the a person's history with people that called themselves architects, or with groups called `architecture team'. All of the definitions I've heard carry truth, but the only one that struck me as universally applicable was "architecture is what everybody contributing to the project needs to know."

]]>architectureaiagentsphilosophyhttps://constans.dev/writing/my-current-architecture-methodology/Fri, 29 May 2026 14:58:00 -0800Determinism under loadhttps://constans.dev/writing/determinism-under-load/determinismauditinferencehttps://constans.dev/writing/determinism-under-load/Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 -0500The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Category Theory in Preventing LLM Drifthttps://constans.dev/writing/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-category-theory-in-preventing-llm-drift/aiagentsphilosophyhttps://constans.dev/writing/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-category-theory-in-preventing-llm-drift/Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 -0500That feeling when Google I/O catches up to you...https://constans.dev/writing/google-io-and-t-shape/softwarearchitecturephilosophyhttps://constans.dev/writing/google-io-and-t-shape/Wed, 20 May 2026 20:57:00 -0700Cops or plumbers? The culture of your security team mattershttps://constans.dev/writing/are-your-it-security-people-cops-or-plumbers/Now that LLMs are flipping the table on so much of what we knew about IT best practices, and we are struggling to feel at all confident that we're not exposing ourselves to new unknown risks when we add inference engines to our pipelines, my mind came to think about the many models adopted by organizations to deal with these issues. I've found it to be a telling indicator of organizational culture. Does your security team see themselves as cops or plumbers?

]]>industrial-organizationhttps://constans.dev/writing/are-your-it-security-people-cops-or-plumbers/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:24:00 -0800Morphology becomes ontologyhttps://constans.dev/writing/morphology-becomes-ontology/aiagentsphilosophyhttps://constans.dev/writing/morphology-becomes-ontology/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0500Categorical learners and governance for insurance contractshttps://constans.dev/writing/categorical-insurance/applied-category-theorylarge-language-modelsbayesian-optimizationpareto-optimizationmonoidal-categorieshaskellcategory-theoryinsurancegovernancehttps://constans.dev/writing/categorical-insurance/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0500A Category Theoretic Framework for Multi-Agent Workflowshttps://constans.dev/writing/pi-agent-space/applied-category-theorylarge-language-modelsbayesian-optimizationpareto-optimizationmonoidal-categorieshaskellhttps://constans.dev/writing/pi-agent-space/Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0500Decisions in a Boxhttps://constans.dev/writing/decisions-in-a-box/softwarephilosophyhttps://constans.dev/writing/decisions-in-a-box/Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:36:00 -0700What bets are you making with your attention?https://constans.dev/writing/what-bets-are-you-making-with-your-attention/softwarephilosophyhttps://constans.dev/writing/what-bets-are-you-making-with-your-attention/Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:36:00 -0700