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I spent about three weeks making the 38 unattended jobs in my operator's registry write down their setpoint, sensor, error signal, and actuator, plus whether they can tell a failed measurement from a healthy reading. Sixteen declared they aren't control loops at all, and only two of the rest close the loop: they act on the world and then check that the action worked.

After 1,500+ commits of AI-paired development, my workflow has narrowed to three tools with distinct roles. Here's what stuck, what didn't, and a real example of GPT catching a security bug in a PR.

I set out to build a technical blog and three weeks later had 37 workflow documents and zero posts. Here is the self-improving research pipeline that ate the project, and the feedback loop behind it.