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Engineering stories, series index

Long-form reflections on the discipline that shapes research-engineering work at NovoMCP. Each post is a story with a lesson, a concrete engineering situation that produced a principle we now apply across teams.

The posts stand alone but compose into a rough thematic arc: make silent failures loud. Every discipline in the series is an instance of that meta-rule at a different layer of the stack.

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Drafts (research-engineering discipline series)

Seven posts drawn from a single molecular dynamics engineering effort in the summer of 2026. Each post is self-contained; the series arc is the thematic connection between them.

  1. Predeclared gates in research engineering: why we run more experiments than we need
  2. Verification doesn't transitively propagate
  3. Fallback state as a first-class diagnostic field
  4. Spec is the source of truth; code reads from it
  5. When to pause and when to continue: fatigue discipline in long research-engineering sessions
  6. False-alarm resolution as institutional memory

Each is a draft pending review. The series arc post, synthesizing the meta-rule the seven instances share, is not yet written; it belongs at the end of the series after readers have absorbed the individual patterns.

Drafts (validation series)

Drawn from validating a trajectory diagnostic in the summer of 2026. Same meta-rule, one layer beneath the result — in the measurement setup nobody thought to review.

Drafts (free-energy series)

Drawn from reviewing the free-energy correction design in the summer of 2026 — the same meta-rule, applied to written claims before any code exists.