You have automated the act of looking, so you have automated the act of being seen. What a server actually learns from a monitor that runs for a year, and why the fix is usually to slow down rather than to hide better.
Tag: Methodology
2026
Six rules for putting a model anywhere near an investigation: assume it will be confidently wrong, keep every claim traceable to a fetched artifact, and treat a page you collected as something that might be talking to your model.
One stage out of 6, and a short list of jobs inside it. The test that sorts the narrowing work a model can take on from the verification and attribution work it can only draft — and why that draft is a lead, not a finding, until a person has checked it.
One small real problem, walked end to end: fetching, a stable ID, storage, notification, scheduling, and the failure mode that looks exactly like good news.
Not AI, not robots. Six stages that every collection system turns out to be a version of — and the 4 cases where the right answer is to do it by hand.