Research Notes

Working notes from building agentic systems under discipline. These documents were produced by LLMs as part of the research process. They have not been independently verified. They are starting material, nothing more.

The value isn't in the analysis — it's in what the analysis was built on: 208 session decisions, 724 commits, and a human who kept saying "no, that's not right" until it was.

LLM Verification Phenomena

What the Literature Says

What happens when LLM-generated tests pass for the wrong reason, automated reviewers find different bugs on every pass, and the fix-review loop refuses to converge. A survey of what academia knows, what it doesn't, and where our daily practice sits in the gap.

LLM PROVENANCE: Produced by Claude. Not independently verified. Starting material, nothing more.
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The Fight Card

Human vs. LLM Confirmation Bias

16 rounds where the human pushed back against sycophantic drift across 208 session decisions. Mapped from the actual decision record — not reconstructed from memory. Key finding: human won every round by being honest when the model couldn't be.

LLM PROVENANCE: Produced by Claude. Not independently verified. Starting material, nothing more.
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Prospective Metacognitive Regulation

Engineering Systems as Cognitive Scaffolding

The engineering work IS the prospective regulation — not post-hoc analysis of it. The governance systems map onto distributed cognition research in ways I didn't plan. Hutchins' foundational work was literally a study of naval navigation.

LLM PROVENANCE: Produced by Claude. Not independently verified. Starting material, nothing more.
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Metacognitive Analysis

Clinical Psychology of the 16 Pivots

Three-stage clinical psychology analysis of the reflective functioning that enabled each pushback moment. Initial assessment: RF 6-7. Recalibrated to RF 6-9 after disclosure of 20 years meditation practice including 15 Zen sesshin. Three peaks at RF 8-9.

LLM PROVENANCE: Produced by Claude. Not independently verified. Starting material, nothing more.
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