<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mark Hingston — Notes</title><description>Short technical notes on reliable AI-enabled software engineering.</description><link>https://markhingston.dev/</link><language>en-gb</language><item><title>Deterministic where possible</title><link>https://markhingston.dev/notes/deterministic-where-possible/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://markhingston.dev/notes/deterministic-where-possible/</guid><description>A useful boundary for AI systems is to keep judgement in the model and move invariants, validation, and repeatable transformations into code.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>reliability</category><category>agentic-systems</category></item><item><title>Evaluation is system design</title><link>https://markhingston.dev/notes/evaluation-is-system-design/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://markhingston.dev/notes/evaluation-is-system-design/</guid><description>Evaluation becomes more useful when it is designed with the workflow, not added after the model already appears to work.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>evaluation</category><category>llm-systems</category></item><item><title>Convergence over capability</title><link>https://markhingston.dev/notes/convergence-over-capability/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://markhingston.dev/notes/convergence-over-capability/</guid><description>The next framework, agent, or tool is only useful when it resolves a concrete blockage better than the mechanism already in hand.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>software-design</category><category>developer-tooling</category></item></channel></rss>