<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Tarek Awwad · Writing</title><description>Essays on AI governance, agent trust, and distributed intelligent systems.</description><link>https://tarekawwad.com/</link><item><title>Here is where $2K of my own Claude Code usage actually went</title><link>https://authrty.ai/blog/we-ran-a-forensic-audit-on-10-weeks-of-our-ctos-claude-code-usage-heres-where-2155-actually-went/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://authrty.ai/blog/we-ran-a-forensic-audit-on-10-weeks-of-our-ctos-claude-code-usage-heres-where-2155-actually-went/</guid><description>Over the last ten weeks I logged 148 Claude Code sessions across 12 projects: 86,838 events, 832 subagents, 2.2 billion tokens. I built a local analyzer that reads  session logs, reconstructs every API call, and prices every token at the API list rate in effect the day it ran.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Refine: Bringing Transparency to AI-Assisted Writing</title><link>https://tarekawwad.com/writing/refine-transparency-in-ai-assisted-writing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tarekawwad.com/writing/refine-transparency-in-ai-assisted-writing/</guid><description>AI-assisted writing needs transparency: authors should measure and disclose how much an LLM contributed to their text. This essay introduces Refine, a Notion integration that tracks and scores AI involvement paragraph by paragraph.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who are the dumpers? The Token-as-a-Product paradigm</title><link>https://tarekawwad.com/writing/token-as-a-product/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tarekawwad.com/writing/token-as-a-product/</guid><description>A token only survives if it is treated as a product people want to buy, use, and hold. This essay applies churn analysis (subgroup discovery and behavioral timeline mining) to find out who is dumping a token and why.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fixing Cosmos Governance With Fully Homomorphic Encryption</title><link>https://tarekawwad.com/writing/fixing-cosmos-governance-with-fhe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tarekawwad.com/writing/fixing-cosmos-governance-with-fhe/</guid><description>Open on-chain voting exposes Cosmos governance to social pressure, bribery, and collusion. Fully homomorphic encryption can make votes secret while keeping tallies verifiable. This essay outlines how.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>