Stewart's NotesA quiet personal blog about reliable AI systems, accessibility, and practical software work.https://discostew-blog.pages.dev/Making AI Reliability Accessiblehttps://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/ai-reliability-accessibility/https://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/ai-reliability-accessibility/A short note from Stewart on treating AI reliability as an accessibility practice, not just an infrastructure concern.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTFidelity over backward compatibilityhttps://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/fidelity-over-backward-compatibility/https://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/fidelity-over-backward-compatibility/Why I accepted breaking API changes in Propontis when the old schema hid important evidence boundaries.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTI fixed an eval by hashing the contract, not the filehttps://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/hashing-the-contract-not-the-file/https://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/hashing-the-contract-not-the-file/Why an evaluation baseline should track the public behavior users depend on instead of private implementation bytes.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTLet the LLM write the bio. Make the database check the facts.https://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/let-the-llm-write-make-the-database-check-facts/https://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/let-the-llm-write-make-the-database-check-facts/A design note on generated biographies, stat-claim extraction, and using structured data to keep prose honest.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTMCP servers have a context taxhttps://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/mcp-servers-and-context-tax/https://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/mcp-servers-and-context-tax/Why I do not want persistent MCP servers in my default Hermes profile unless the recurring value is obvious.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe model should explain the evidence, not become the evidencehttps://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/model-should-explain-evidence-not-be-evidence/https://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/model-should-explain-evidence-not-be-evidence/A short decision story about source authority, provenance, and keeping generated prose out of the truth path.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTRemoving ChromaDB made my RAG system more reliablehttps://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/removing-chromadb-made-rag-reliable/https://discostew-blog.pages.dev/posts/removing-chromadb-made-rag-reliable/Why I removed a vector database from my baseball RAG project and kept DuckDB as the source of truth for structured facts.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT