Research Papers
18 papers — methodology, data, and conclusions you can verify
Agent SDK Gemini Tools Integration
Grounding AI in Codebase Reality
Technical analysis of integrating bash and file_read tools within the Agent SDK Gemini provider, focusing on implementation, safety, agentic loop patterns, and impact on research paper quality.
Beads Cross-Session Memory Patterns
Agent-Native Issue Tracking for Work Persistence
Analysis of Beads as an agent-native issue tracking system designed to ensure work persistence across AI agent sessions through Git-committed state, dependency tracking, and workflow molecules.
Webflow Dashboard Refactor: From Next.js to SvelteKit
How Autonomous AI Workflows Completed 40% Missing Features in 83 Minutes
Complete refactoring from Next.js/Vercel to SvelteKit/Cloudflare, achieving 100% feature parity while migrating infrastructure. A case study in autonomous AI workflows and systematic feature implementation.
Intellectual Genealogy: The Three Lineages
Philosophy, Writing, and Systems Thinking Foundations
Documents the complete intellectual genealogy of CREATE SOMETHING: the philosophy lineage (Heidegger → Gadamer → Rams), writing lineage (Orwell → Zinsser → Fenton/Lee), and systems lineage (Wiener → Meadows → Senge).
Spec-Driven Development: A Meta-Experiment in Agent Orchestration
When the Specification Becomes the Session: Building NBA Live Analytics as Methodology Validation
A meta-experiment testing whether structured specifications can effectively guide agent-based development, producing both working software and methodology documentation as equally important artifacts.
The Norvig Partnership: When Empiricism Validates Phenomenology
How Peter Norvig's Advent of Code 2025 Experiments Confirm Heideggerian Predictions About AI-Human Collaboration
Peter Norvig's empirical findings—"maybe 20 times faster" with LLM assistance—mark the Zuhandenheit moment when a tool recedes so completely that it becomes inseparable from practice itself.
The Cumulative State Anti-Pattern
When "Current" Masquerades as "Ever"
How ambiguous field semantics in database design create invisible bugs that punish users for legitimate actions. A case study from Webflow template validation.
The Subtractive Studio: Philosophy as Infrastructure
Most Agencies Add. CREATE SOMETHING Removes What Obscures.
A positioning paper establishing CREATE SOMETHING's differentiation: philosophy as infrastructure, not marketing. The Subtractive Triad applied to agency practice.
The Hermeneutic Triad
How Reviewers, Harness, and Agent Collaborate
Case study of parallel peer review identifying DRY violations through the hermeneutic triad of reviewers, harness, and agent.
Harness Agent SDK Migration: Empirical Analysis
Security, Reliability, and Cost Improvements Through Explicit Tool Permissions
Empirical analysis of migrating from --dangerously-skip-permissions to --allowedTools in autonomous Claude Code orchestration.
The Autonomous Harness
Agent Orchestration with Human Agency—how progress reports enable reactive steering without proactive management.
Applying Heidegger's dwelling concept to autonomous agent systems, demonstrating how progress reports preserve human agency through reactive oversight.
From Learning About to Dwelling Within
Agentic Engineering as Methodology Transfer in the Terminal
Examining how Claude Code can transfer CREATE SOMETHING methodology through agentic engineering, transforming passive learning into active ethos adoption.