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Sep 5, 2026perspectives8 min read

Interaction Is Not Interface

Applications have been the center of software. AI gives us a chance to put the person, their role, and their goal there instead.

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Aug 24, 2026perspectives6 min read

Businesses Shouldn’t Have to Run to Stay in Place

Why do businesses have to rewrite working systems just to keep the same reports, approvals, and invoices running?

Jul 26, 2026perspectives5 min read

One Million Ontologies

Our systems already disagree about what things mean. Inferal is designing for a million small ontologies that make those differences explicit enough to act on.

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Jul 15, 2026perspectives5 min read

What Rules Know That Code Forgets

Rules make business logic visible. Implication graphs make consequences traceable. That difference matters when every operational decision has a downstream path.

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Feb 11, 2026perspectives7 min read

Separation of Concerns: You're Cutting Along the Wrong Line

The principle everyone agrees on. The application everyone gets wrong. What if data and code were never separate concerns?

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Jan 19, 2026perspectives5 min read

Attitude, Belief, Skill: A Hiring Priority Stack

What if conventional hiring has the priority order backwards?

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Jan 7, 2026perspectives6 min read

Fresh Data In, Fast Decisions Out

Most rule engines failed to gain adoption because database integration was weak. In today's fragmented data landscape, getting data in and decisions out isn't optional. It's the foundation.

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Jan 5, 2026perspectives8 min read

Temporal, DBOS, Windmill, and Lambda Durable Functions solve state durability. But code itself is the problem: workflows aren't sequences you build. They emerge from conditions. And code can't express emergence.

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Jan 1, 2026perspectives5 min read

Understanding Agent-Native Data Systems

Traditional databases follow a request-response pattern that leaves agents waiting, ignorant, and inactive. Agent-native systems flip this model.

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