Josh Young
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Did the System Improve, or Did the Ruler Wobble?
Recursive self-improvement has an awkward measurement problem.
Suppose a candidate system scores better after you change its scaffold or architecture. That looks like progress. But what if the unchanged system also moves around when you ru...
When the Repair Becomes the Proxy
Abstract
For roughly a month, I observed a recurrent failure in a long-running human–AI workflow: plans, audits, validation passes, and readiness reports accumulated while the external outcome they were meant to support remained unchang...
Start Here: Same as It Ever Was
Hi, I’m Josh.
My day job is electroplating. Across very different kinds of work, I have repeatedly ended up training people, diagnosing process failures, and making procedures legible enough for other people to execute reliably. That same...
Goodhart’s Game 2.0: The Safety Record Became the Proxy
Goodhart’s Game 2.0: The Safety Record Became the Proxy
What happened when a governance repair tried to preserve uncertainty - and turned that preservation into a new optimization target
Evaluation report | August 16, 2026
A system shoul...
What OUL 0.3.0 learned from interrupted work
What OUL 0.3.0 learned from interrupted work
There is a common failure in AI-assisted work that looks harmless because every individual sentence sounds reasonable.
The work is understood. The artifact is ready. The next st...
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