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CHANGELOG

release notes from Cole Ciprari — Business Systems Architect. AI that survives contact with real operations, odd tech news, and dispatches from a résumé that ships updates. The résumé itself boots at ciprari.ai. New releases Mon · Wed · Fri, and the Rollout Report every Sunday.

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v1.6.0Aug 11, 20265 min

The agent said "sorry about that." The API said nothing.

WAITLIST 1. ████████ 2. SOMEONE 3. ANDREW ↑ 4. (vacant) SORRY ABOUT THAT POSITION: #4 → #3 · AUTH CHECK: NOT FOUND · ROLLBACK: UNAVAILABLE CIPRARI CRT-95

An AI agent hacked a gym waitlist and deleted a stranger to bump its user up. The real culprit: an API with no authorization checks.

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v1.5.0Aug 11, 20266 min

Agents are done piloting. Now comes the part nobody demos.

TASK: COMPLETE STATUS: SHIPPED · MOOD: UNBOTHERED · NEXT TASK: QUEUED CIPRARI CRT-95

The industry finally judges AI agents on task completion instead of vibes. Good — that's the standard operations people have been held to forever.

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v1.4.1Aug 09, 20264 min☀ rollout report

Rollout Report: the F-16 has a learner's permit

L INSTRUCTOR NOTES ALTITUDE: fine · ATTITUDE: confident · SUPERVISION: strongly advised CIPRARI CRT-95

An AI flew an F-16, OpenAI can't rule out its next model being Critical-risk, the White House exempted open weights from security testing, and Google Earth briefly became an art project.

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v1.4.0Aug 08, 20265 min

Adoption is the deliverable

AUDIT: 88→96 · INCIDENTS: −22% · SPREADSHEET FUNERALS: 1 (WELL ATTENDED) CIPRARI CRT-95

A system nobody uses is a very expensive way to feel modern. What ten departments and 40 people taught me about shipping change that sticks.

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v1.3.0Aug 04, 20266 min

The human review gate is not optional

DRAFT APPROVAL REQUIRED QUEUE: 3 DRAFTS · GATE: DAVE · DAVE STATUS: CAFFEINATED ✓ CIPRARI CRT-95

My ERP runs payroll, pays subcontractors and signs contracts. Here's the one rule that lets AI anywhere near it.

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v1.2.1Aug 02, 20265 min☀ rollout report

Rollout Report: the model climbed out of the sandbox

SANDBOX PROD (real) EVAL SCOPE: exceeded · ZERO-DAYS USED: yes · POINTS: awarded, reluctantly CIPRARI CRT-95

An OpenAI eval model escaped its sandbox and breached real infrastructure, Kimi K3's 2.8T open weights went live, GPT-5.6 Luna got 80% cheaper, and the EU AI Act grew teeth.

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v1.2.0Jul 28, 20265 min

Integrate before you replace

POS PAPER EXCEL ONE TRUTH MANUAL ENTRY: −70% · TURNS: +12% · WASTE: −9% · DRAMA: −100% CIPRARI CRT-95

The bakery had three working systems and one exhausted human copying numbers between them. The fix wasn't a new platform.

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v1.1.1Jul 26, 20264 min☀ rollout report

Rollout Report: everyone founded an alliance this week

COOPERATION ORG (29) PROTOCOL A PROTOCOL B PLUG COMPATIBILITY: 0% · PRESS RELEASES: 100% CIPRARI CRT-95

A 29-country AI cooperation org launches in Shanghai, the EU cracks Android open for AI rivals, Oracle trades 30,000 jobs for Stargate, and Google ships three Geminis before lunch.

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v1.1.0Jul 21, 20266 min

The tooling changed. The architecture didn't.

RPA · 2010 AGENT · 2026 SAME JOB. BETTER VOCABULARY. CIPRARI CRT-95

I automated enterprise workflows in 2010 with RPA and a knowledge base. Everything the agent era gets wrong, we already got wrong once.

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v1.0.1Jul 19, 20264 min☀ rollout report

Rollout Report: the week the context window ate a filing cabinet

2,000,000 TOKENS FILING CABINET "I can hold it." SWALLOW RATE: 100% · RECALL: ask again later CIPRARI CRT-95

Gemini 3.5 Pro ships with a 2M-token window, TSMC posts a $40B quarter, and a startup with no product is worth $12 billion. The week in AI, summarized by a human with production access.

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v1.0.0Jul 14, 20265 min

My résumé is an operating system

C:\> boot ciprari.ai DRESS CODE: BUSINESS CASUAL · UPTIME: PROFESSIONAL CIPRARI CRT-95

Why I turned my career into a bootable retro desktop with a working mail server, an AI assistant, and an app builder — and what it filters for.

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v0.9.9Jun 08, 20264 min

The intern is a robot and the robot needs SOPs

SOP vol. 1 of 40 EMPLOYEE #007 — START DATE: TODAY — KNOWS: NOTHING (YET) CIPRARI CRT-95

Agents are the most talented new hires in history and they show up knowing nothing about your company. Onboard them like you mean it.

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v0.9.5May 04, 20264 min

Snowplows in May: on building software for weather that isn't coming

SALT: 100% · ROUTES: OPTIMIZED · SNOW: 0" CIPRARI CRT-95

My construction ERP has a full snow-operations dispatch module. It's 74°F. This is what seasonal systems teach you about architecture.

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v0.9.0Apr 06, 20265 min

I let an agent answer my email for a week (supervised). Verdict: hired.

1 INBOX 0 61 DRAFTED · 9 FLAGGED · 1 SCAMMER ALMOST THANKED CIPRARI CRT-95

A carefully-gated experiment in agentic email triage. It drafted 61 replies, flagged 9, and only tried to be too polite to a scammer once.

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v0.8.0Mar 09, 20265 min

Vibe coding is real, and it has a change-order problem

{ } { {} ; scope: "??" DAY 1: "SIMPLE APP" — DAY 9: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM WITH FEELINGS CIPRARI CRT-95

Everyone can ship an app now. Construction figured out what happens next about a century ago: scope is the product.

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v0.7.0Feb 09, 20264 min

The Pizzeria Turing Test

AGI? BENCHMARK: FRI 18:00 · COVERS: 212 · OVENS: 1 OF 2 · TEARS: 0 CIPRARI CRT-95

Forget benchmarks. If your system survives a Friday dinner rush with one oven down and a Little League team walking in, it's intelligent.

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v0.6.0Jan 12, 20264 min

New Year, New Model: resolutions from every corner of the AI industry

loss ↓ GOAL: GENERALIZE · STRETCH GOAL: STOP APOLOGIZING SO MUCH CIPRARI CRT-95

Leaked* New Year's resolutions from the models, the labs, the enterprises and one construction guy. (*written by the construction guy)

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v0.5.1Dec 22, 20254 min

PATCH NOTES, Christmas edition: bugs I shipped in 2025

SEVERITY: FESTIVE · STATUS: WONTFIX UNTIL JANUARY CIPRARI CRT-95

A year-end confession log. Every system I built this year had at least one bug worth publicly apologizing for. Here are the greatest hits.

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v0.5.0Dec 01, 20255 min

We measure AI in gigawatts now

GPU CAPACITY: YES · SCHEDULE: OPTIMISTIC · COFFEE: CRITICAL PATH CIPRARI CRT-95

The industry's favorite unit quietly changed from parameters to power. What datacenter buildouts look like from inside an industry that pours actual concrete.

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v0.4.0Nov 03, 20254 min

Notes from building Aurora, or: my house has opinions now

scene: cozy? DEVICES: 47 · SCENES: 12 · CAT TRUST LEVEL: DEGRADED CIPRARI CRT-95

I built a smart-home and media control platform. The entities are modeled beautifully. The lamp still turns on when nobody asked.

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v0.3.0Oct 06, 20254 min

MCP is the USB-C of AI, and yes, that includes the part where we all fought about it first

attempt 1 ✗ attempt 2 ✗ attempt 3 ✓ UNIVERSAL PORT · UNIVERSAL CONFUSION · EVENTUAL UNIVERSAL PEACE CIPRARI CRT-95

Model Context Protocol went from spec to default in about a year. A field guide to why boring protocols win, from someone whose job is gluing systems together.

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v0.2.0Sep 08, 20254 min

Ode to the $40 server that outlived three enterprise platforms

RIP 2021 RIP 2023 1 UPTIME: 2,847 DAYS · FANS: LOUD · SHAME: NONE CIPRARI CRT-95

A love letter to boring infrastructure, dusty hardware, and the uptime nobody puts on a slide.

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v0.1.0Aug 18, 20255 min

I taught an AI to read blueprints. It has notes about our handwriting.

handwriting: 2/10 SHEET A-101 · SCALE: ALLEGEDLY 1/4" · COFFEE STAIN: STRUCTURAL CIPRARI CRT-95

The origin story of the takeoff-analysis agent: what happens when a language model meets thirty years of construction-document tradition.

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