The thesis

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Experiments, frameworks, and field notes from the program behind quirq. Hypotheses ship with falsifiers; results land here as they land.

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Intersecting planes of coloured light standing like a lit grid in the dark.04accountingThe company dashboardThe quirq ledger a company reads monthly, and the reading discipline that goes with it. A worked quarter where token spend rose 83% while verified value per all-in dollar rose 81%.2 min read
A beam striking the edge of a prism and throwing one hard rainbow band.05validationValidationHypothesis-first validation: every empirical claim stated with its falsifier and bound to numbered experiments E1 through E7, completed or scheduled.3 min read
Layered sheets of light converging across a black field, each one fading before it reaches the edge.06evidence mapAgent Context Research: The Evidence So FarA guided map of five agent-context studies, including the 84-run replication that did not reproduce the pilot's cheaper-context headline, and the question each follow-up was built to answer.June 2026 · 4 min read
A single lit edge of glass casting an ordered spectral fan into darkness.07experimentHow the Environment Affects Agent Performance and Token CostA pilot running one coding agent against one fixed task under six escalating levels of project context. Every environment finished, the richest ones spent up to 36 percent fewer tokens, and caching served 88 to 96 percent of the input.June 2026 · 11 min read

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