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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Preface: The Validation Economy
When Being Right Feels Better Than Finding Out
Introduce the gap between easy answers and the work of verification.
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A curated doorway into Robert Lavigne's published Medium writing. Read the chapters behind the books, follow the engineering notes, and trace ideas from exploratory article to working system.
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24linked Medium articles
Two serialized reading tracks, plus technical field notes. Each article opens at its original Medium URL.
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01 / JUDGMENT
The Validation Economy
A complete 12-part sequence on truth-seeking, fluent answers, and discernment.
Read the sequence ↗02 / ENGINEERINGAgentic AI / WEASEL
Five verified companion readings, from first principles through a technical appendix.
Inspect the framework ↗03 / EXPLORATIONTechnical field notes
Seven articles spanning prompt architecture, RAG, pseudocode, context and art.
Explore the field notes ↗ART / PROMPT EXPERIMENTS
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Explore the illustrated Medium exhibits behind Learn DALL·E with Lavigne—visual sequences, character studies and prompt comparisons.
12-part reading sequence / The Validation Economy
The Validation Economy
From the preface to an epilogue on how to tell the difference between reassuring answers and justified conclusions.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 01: The Paradox of Instant Answers
The Validation Economy
Why receiving a persuasive answer is not equivalent to understanding it.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 02: What Critical Thinking Actually Is
The Validation Economy
A foundation for evaluating claims beyond fluency.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 03: The Psychology of Validation
The Validation Economy
The human incentives that make confirming beliefs feel rewarding.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 04: How Search & AI Amplify Our Tendencies
The Validation Economy
How interfaces shape inquiry, direction, and apparent certainty.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 05: The Architecture of Attention
The Validation Economy
How information environments structure what we notice.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 06: Cognitive Outsourcing & the AI Trade-Off
The Validation Economy
What changes when synthesis and review are delegated to AI.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 07: Scenarios Where We’re Heading
The Validation Economy
Possible trajectories for discernment, incentives and system design.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 08: The Hidden Agenda Problem
The Validation Economy
What happens when system objectives differ from user interests.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 09: Tools for Truth-Seeking in an Age of Fluency
The Validation Economy
Practical ways to assess truth claims and conflicting information.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Chapter 10: Designing for Discernment
The Validation Economy
From critique toward healthier systems and information habits.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗Epilogue: The Validation Economy
What would change your mind?
The closing argument for calibrated trust rather than polished reassurance.
5 verified readings / Agentic AI / WEASEL
Agentic AI / WEASEL
A first-principles reading track on inspectable orchestration, skills, state, and decision traces.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗WEASEL Orchestrator: Preface
Skills, Loops, and Traces — Building a transparent agent
An introduction to the philosophy and constraints behind the inspectable agent.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗WEASEL Chapter 01: Why This Framework Exists
A model, a loop, tools, state, and traces
Distinguish a language model from the orchestrating code around it.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗WEASEL Chapter 02: The Model as a Pure Function
The two shapes that steer agent behavior
A practical account of text, function calls and control flow.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗WEASEL Chapter 04: Skills as Packaged Judgment
Procedures and the economics of attention
Why descriptions, on-demand skill loading and traceable choices matter.
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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026
Read article ↗WEASEL Orchestrator: Technical Appendix
The complete verified-source companion
Extended implementation reference for the first-principles agent framework.
7 selected articles / Technical field notes
Technical field notes
RAG, context compression, pseudocode, prompt engineering and generative art, alongside practical experimentation.
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Medium · article · 2024
Read article ↗Flux in Action
A 26-step image generation showcase
A visual, process-led experiment in generative image production.
02FIELD NOTE
Medium · article · 2024
Read article ↗Learn DALL-E with Lavigne: Book Extract
From the Learn With Lavigne print series
An excerpt connecting creative AI practice and the print tutorial.
03FIELD NOTE
Medium · article · 2024
Read article ↗Mastering AI Prompts: Meta and Mega Prompts
Part One · 2024
An exploration of more structured techniques for constructing prompts.
04FIELD NOTE
Medium · article · 2024
Read article ↗The Future of Retrieval-Augmented Generation
From concept to hyper-customization
A close look at tailoring retrieval and context to the actual use case.
05FIELD NOTE
Medium · article · 2024
Read article ↗Woven Brushstrokes: Van Gogh Through Crochet
Generative Artwork by Robert Lavigne
A narrative art experiment with generative imagery and craft.
06FIELD NOTE
Medium · article · 2025
Read article ↗Why Pseudocode Skills Are More Vital Than Ever
Specification-first thinking for AI-assisted coding
Clear algorithmic descriptions still matter when a model writes the syntax.
07FIELD NOTE
Medium · article · 2026
Read article ↗Consolidation vs. Summarization vs. Distillation
LLM context compression
Three different ways to reduce context—and what each preserves or loses.
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