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Articles are not indexed by publication order

The author retracts an earlier claim that articles are indexed strictly by age (oldest first). After expanding tests from five to twenty-four articles using exact-title search queries, the author found indexation ordering is not determined by article age and that indexation status can change across days. A notable stable finding was that none of the author's Medium pages returned on their exact titles across three separate readings. The author recommends not drawing conclusions from a single indexation check, to write decision rules before measuring, and to repeat measurements until results stabilize. Disclosure: the author builds the BlueTicks Gmail extension.

Translating Ethical Design into Machine-Readable Rules

The article argues that ethical principles for AI-assisted design must be translated into concrete, machine-readable rules (for example, in plain-text DESIGN.md files) before AI can reliably follow them. It describes how teams already use DESIGN.md files to encode visual and technical standards and cites Productic’s guidance to include accessibility (WCAG AA). The author proposes an "Ethical Interface Design" framework with five pillars — Inclusion, Autonomy, Transparency, Privacy, and Well-being — and explains the difficulty of turning broad ethical values into measurable rules comparable to accessibility standards like WCAG. The piece calls for defining specific, testable rules and consensus on who writes them before delegating ethical decisions to machines.

AI to Externalize and Productize Human Judgment

Dan Maccarone argues that AI makes it possible — and valuable — to extract and package an individual's tacit judgment so others or systems can use it. The essay contrasts two approaches: externalizing judgment into structured artifacts and models, and transferring judgment via apprenticeship and situated learning. The author recommends combining both: write down what can be made explicit and build proximity-based apprenticeship for what cannot. The piece references established concepts (tacit knowledge, deep smarts, externalization) and cautions that modelled copies lack lived experience and can be confident but wrong.