$40T National Debt. 1M Agents for the Principal, Humans for the Interest.
Split the debt into two jobs. One million AI agents pay the principal on a public schedule. Humans carry the interest. Then do the math honestly.
ML Systems Engineering
Engineering notes from ML Systems, a construction technology company in Rhode Island. Claims-based data models, multi-agent architecture, on-device vision, and what breaks when software meets a job site. Written by Salman Parvez, who runs the construction company and wrote the software. Every claim here is labelled MEASURED, MODELED or ASPIRATIONAL.
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The model is rented. The window is authored.
Show me the English
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Claimants Without Seats — the authority bug in our own ontology
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Four claims about one roof, and what the Master Ledger would have to do when a section is turned over and the layers start disagreeing with the file
Claims, Not Facts: An Auditable Multi-Author Record for a House
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The Advice Was "Build on Unique Data." Mine Was a House.
A response to Marina Wyss's How I'd Learn Machine Learning in 2026, from someone who arrived at the same checkpoints from the construction side
I stopped storing facts and started storing claims
Every table I have ever written starts from the same quiet assumption: that there is one right answer and my job is to store it. bedrooms: 3. Done. That assumption survives right up until two sources