# discostew test on Cloudflare

Local AI experiments and notes from testing what is possible now.

This is an agent-oriented markdown index for public blog discovery. It only describes published posts and static discovery artifacts generated from src/content/posts.

## Discovery

- Home: https://discostew.dev/
- Structured post index: https://discostew.dev/posts.json
- JSON Feed 1.1: https://discostew.dev/feed.json
- RSS: https://discostew.dev/rss.xml
- Sitemap: https://discostew.dev/sitemap.xml
- llms.txt: https://discostew.dev/llms.txt

## Posts

- [Good News: Jesus Is Risen](https://discostew.dev/posts/good-news-jesus-is-risen/)
  - Published: 2026-07-06
  - Summary: Just trying to share the Word: the tomb is empty, hope is alive, and Christ has conquered death.
  - Tags: faith, Jesus, resurrection
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/good-news-jesus-is-risen.md

- [The fireworks test was really a runtime test](https://discostew.dev/posts/local-model-fireworks-approval-results/)
  - Published: 2026-06-21
  - Summary: A receipt-heavy proof run for three local runtime lanes: GLM 5.2, MiniMax M3, and DeepSeek V4 Flash.
  - Tags: evals, local models, AI reliability, benchmark
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/local-model-fireworks-approval-results.md

- [Proof: David Wilderness Stealth Prototype](https://discostew.dev/posts/proof-david-wilderness-stealth-prototype/)
  - Published: 2026-06-17
  - Summary: Evidence from a real Godot 4 render and validation run for a hex-grid stealth tactics prototype about David reaching the Cave of Adullam.
  - Tags: game prototype, Godot, stealth tactics, agent proof
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/proof-david-wilderness-stealth-prototype.md

- [ChromaDB was extra state, not extra evidence](https://discostew.dev/posts/chromadb-was-extra-state-not-evidence/)
  - Published: 2026-06-13
  - Summary: Why I removed ChromaDB from Baseball RAG after realizing it did not give me anything the model and database could not already do better.
  - Tags: AI reliability, RAG, ChromaDB, DuckDB, local AI
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/chromadb-was-extra-state-not-evidence.md

- [Making AI Reliability Accessible](https://discostew.dev/posts/ai-reliability-accessibility/)
  - Published: 2026-06-09
  - Summary: A short note from discostew on treating AI reliability as an accessibility practice, not just an infrastructure concern.
  - Tags: AI reliability, accessibility, software practice
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/ai-reliability-accessibility.md

- [Fidelity over backward compatibility](https://discostew.dev/posts/fidelity-over-backward-compatibility/)
  - Published: 2026-06-09
  - Summary: Why I accepted breaking API changes in Propontis when the old schema hid important evidence boundaries.
  - Tags: Propontis, API design, auditability, red teaming, AI reliability
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/fidelity-over-backward-compatibility.md

- [I fixed an eval by hashing the contract, not the file](https://discostew.dev/posts/hashing-the-contract-not-the-file/)
  - Published: 2026-06-09
  - Summary: Why an evaluation baseline should track the public behavior users depend on instead of private implementation bytes.
  - Tags: evals, AI reliability, testing, provenance
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/hashing-the-contract-not-the-file.md

- [Let the LLM write the bio. Make the database check the facts.](https://discostew.dev/posts/let-the-llm-write-make-the-database-check-facts/)
  - Published: 2026-06-09
  - Summary: A design note on generated biographies, stat-claim extraction, and using structured data to keep prose honest.
  - Tags: LLMs, verification, baseball RAG, AI reliability
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/let-the-llm-write-make-the-database-check-facts.md

- [MCP servers have a context tax](https://discostew.dev/posts/mcp-servers-and-context-tax/)
  - Published: 2026-06-09
  - Summary: Why I do not want persistent MCP servers in my default Hermes profile unless the recurring value is obvious.
  - Tags: Hermes, MCP, local AI, agent workflows, stewardship
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/mcp-servers-and-context-tax.md

- [The model should explain the evidence, not become the evidence](https://discostew.dev/posts/model-should-explain-evidence-not-be-evidence/)
  - Published: 2026-06-09
  - Summary: A short decision story about source authority, provenance, and keeping generated prose out of the truth path.
  - Tags: AI reliability, provenance, RAG, source authority
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/model-should-explain-evidence-not-be-evidence.md

- [Removing ChromaDB made my RAG system more reliable](https://discostew.dev/posts/removing-chromadb-made-rag-reliable/)
  - Published: 2026-06-09
  - Summary: Why I removed a vector database from my baseball RAG project and kept DuckDB as the source of truth for structured facts.
  - Tags: AI reliability, RAG, provenance, DuckDB, accessibility
  - Markdown: https://discostew.dev/posts/removing-chromadb-made-rag-reliable.md

## Machine-readable index

The same public post metadata is available as JSON in /posts.json:

- good-news-jesus-is-risen: https://discostew.dev/posts/good-news-jesus-is-risen/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/good-news-jesus-is-risen.md
- local-model-fireworks-approval-results: https://discostew.dev/posts/local-model-fireworks-approval-results/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/local-model-fireworks-approval-results.md
- proof-david-wilderness-stealth-prototype: https://discostew.dev/posts/proof-david-wilderness-stealth-prototype/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/proof-david-wilderness-stealth-prototype.md
- chromadb-was-extra-state-not-evidence: https://discostew.dev/posts/chromadb-was-extra-state-not-evidence/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/chromadb-was-extra-state-not-evidence.md
- ai-reliability-accessibility: https://discostew.dev/posts/ai-reliability-accessibility/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/ai-reliability-accessibility.md
- fidelity-over-backward-compatibility: https://discostew.dev/posts/fidelity-over-backward-compatibility/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/fidelity-over-backward-compatibility.md
- hashing-the-contract-not-the-file: https://discostew.dev/posts/hashing-the-contract-not-the-file/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/hashing-the-contract-not-the-file.md
- let-the-llm-write-make-the-database-check-facts: https://discostew.dev/posts/let-the-llm-write-make-the-database-check-facts/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/let-the-llm-write-make-the-database-check-facts.md
- mcp-servers-and-context-tax: https://discostew.dev/posts/mcp-servers-and-context-tax/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/mcp-servers-and-context-tax.md
- model-should-explain-evidence-not-be-evidence: https://discostew.dev/posts/model-should-explain-evidence-not-be-evidence/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/model-should-explain-evidence-not-be-evidence.md
- removing-chromadb-made-rag-reliable: https://discostew.dev/posts/removing-chromadb-made-rag-reliable/ -> https://discostew.dev/posts/removing-chromadb-made-rag-reliable.md