http://programmer.ie/tags/claims/ Recent content in Claims on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:18 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/18-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:18 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/18-chapter/ <p><em>Part 3 — Give Intelligence a Runtime</em></p> <h2 id="three-sentences-and-a-merge">Three sentences and a merge</h2> <p>A review of a cache change says three things:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>The cache TTL is set to 60 seconds in config/cache.toml. The retry test passes. </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>p99 latency stays under 200 ms. </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Someone reads it and merges the change. The next day, the deployed configuration turns out to say 600 seconds.</p> <p>The obvious question is whether the review was wrong. The more useful question is narrower: <strong>which part of the decision rested on which sentence, and what had anyone actually checked?</strong> One sentence could be confirmed against a file. One could be tested. One had no evidence at all. The merge used two of them and knowingly left the third open, or it didn&rsquo;t. The merge record lists no basis, so the basis cannot be reconstructed.</p>