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Standalone episodes
Most of this site is one long arc: MAX, agents, compliance, and the systems that have to be right because somebody's health or money depends on them. These are the other episodes. Watch them in any order. No earlier episodes required.
The rest of the library is the mythology. These are the nights off — the episodes you can watch cold.
A son's video game and the background characters he says don't matter. The Mad Hatter, still precise at six o'clock. Three patient apps on one kitchen table that won't talk to each other. A pull-request queue longer than anyone can read before lunch. None of these is a research paper. They are what the research looks like from the outside, on a day off, and most of them find their way back to it anyway.
The frame
What makes an episode
It stands alone
No series to catch up on and no glossary to learn first. Start anywhere.
It starts with a person
A living-room floor, a kitchen table, a race course, a queue at dawn. The technology shows up second.
It points at something we accept
The habits nobody questions anymore, looked at long enough to notice how strange they are.
It comes back to the work
However far it wanders, most episodes end up somewhere near the systems the rest of the site builds.
Flagships
Where to start
Faster Than Anyone Can Read
Agents filled the pull-request queue overnight, a week of typing done with the lights off. The question on the screen was simpler and harder than any of the code: who reads it?
Keeping Time When Time Breaks
A son runs past a background character in a video game and explains that NPCs don't matter, they just repeat lines. The unsettling part isn't the cruelty. It's how accurate it is.
Field notes
Every episode
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