Time Is a Security Boundary
Automated attacks thrive on chaining small actions without interruption. Deliberate slow points break the chain: delay gives the rest of the system time to react.
Hi, I'm Luc Bocahut. I'm a systems architect: I design and build software meant to run for years, from trading infrastructure to personal agents. The ideas here emerge from building products and running them in production. More about how I think.
Ideas
The Flame
Every living thing on Earth is part of one unbroken chain nearly four billion years old. What if civilization's objective function were keeping that flame alive?
Bring Your Own AI
If the application owns the semantics, why does it also need to own the intelligence? Welcome agents as first-class users: the application becomes stable, the intelligence becomes portable.
Ludicrous Speed
How we build products at Commons now. Ideas become issues, agents turn them into merged, deployed software, and the default state is shipping.