SystemHalted — Palak Mathur on software engineering, leadership, and Emacs
Recent posts
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Resource Integrity Belongs to the Resource, Not the API
An operational tool may bypass a REST endpoint, but it must not bypass the resource contract.
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AI Governance Needs Accountability, Not Just Principles
On AI ethics, software responsibility, collective intelligence, and why new technological rights need institutions that can actually enforce them.
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AI in People Management
A measured look at where AI genuinely helps in people management, and where human judgment has to stay in the loop.
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Free Will, AI, and the Limits of Intentionality
A short opinion piece on free will, intentionality, and why narrow AI agents should not be treated as self-determined actors.
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Review: Studying the Wisdom of Crowds at Scale
A review of Simoiu et al.'s large-scale study of crowd judgment, accuracy, consistency, and the risks of social influence.
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Naming as Design: Refactoring an API Model
Taking one badly named order model -- Java record and OpenAPI schema -- through four passes: types that test values, names that reveal intention, duplication removed, and speculative fields deleted.
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What UNO Teaches About Rule-Based Agents
A small UNO-playing production system shows both the usefulness and the limits of rule-based agents.
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Review: How Technological Advances Can Reveal Rights
A review of Parker and Danks's argument that some rights become visible only when technology changes the balance of power.