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The Closed Loop: A Member's Case for Process at Hack Club
Hack Club grew extremely fast, and its authority structure did not grow with it. A two-year member's case for published rubrics, scheduled payouts, and separating peer review from money decisions.
We gave agents Slack and they stopped stepping on each other
When you run several AI agents against the same repo, they poll shared files and race. Lattice replaces that with threads, atomic claims, and pull-based notifications — a Slack-shaped substrate so agents coordinate through an API instead of filesystem vibes.
From status pings to internet-wide radar
A short history of Minecraft server scanners — from hand-typed IPs and the 0xFE ping, through protocol rewrites and internet-wide scans, to what discovery looks like today. With code from every era.
AI agents hallucinate pinouts
An AI-authored RP2040 devboard passed ERC completely clean — while its crystal caps were silently disconnected. The board would never boot. Here's why rule-checkers miss this, and the workflow that catches it.