Building apps with an autonomous Gauntlet Loop
I adapted Matt Shumer's Gauntlet Loop into a recurring app-building workflow with Git state, task branches, separate critics, and human review before production.
At the intersection of machine intelligence, human judgment, evidence, and power.
Writing, research, and interactive work across AI, intelligence work, OSINT, quantum, and geopolitics.
Featured work
Where to start. The selection rotates as new work lands.
Has AI started improving itself?
AI systems can improve outputs, tools, and parts of their own training loops. I wanted to know when that becomes recursive self-improvement, and whether any public system has crossed the line.
Can faster AI inference give developers their flow back?
Faster inference can remove one kind of waiting. Whether it protects developer flow depends on where the work, uncertainty, and review move next.
What Europe's AI gigafactory plan can and cannot buy
Europe's €30 billion gigafactory tender can fund useful compute. Its scale, energy, demand, and control constraints show what a sovereign AI strategy still requires.
Russian influence and disinformation operations in the Balkans
Moscow's three rails in the Western Balkans – narratives, clients, media – peer-reviewed research, revised and updated for 2026.
The new viborc.com: what changed, what survived, and why
Why the rebuild happened, what the mark now means, how every established article address survived, and the editorial contract this publication runs on.
Across the topics
Recent work from every field – essays, research, data work, investigations, and fact-checks.
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Ethics in data visualization: how charts deceive, and how to read them like an analyst
How charts deceive: the manipulation techniques, the arrival of AI-generated deception at scale, a verification checklist, and the ethics of honest charts.
2026-07-14 -
Cognitive biases in intelligence analysis and their mitigation (debiasing)
Explore cognitive biases in intelligence analysis, their impact on decision-making, and mitigation strategies for accurate insights.
2025-01-05 -
2024 European gas storage reserves – frozen country snapshot
A frozen country-by-country snapshot of European gas storage reserves and capacities, last updated 20 April 2024.
2023-09-30 -
Comparison of Slovenia, Croatia, and Western Balkans in 2023 - economy and politics
Comparing Slovenia and Croatia to W. Balkans countries (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, N. Macedonia, Kosovo) covering GDP, PPI, HDI, and more.
2023-01-07 -
The Armenian Genocide: Recognition, status and the maps
Denied by Turkey, the Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the 20th century. See countries and recognition statuses on maps and lists.
2021-04-25