Essays on AI governance and on what a decade of crowdsourcing and consensus research teaches about trusting intelligent systems.

Here is where $2K of my own Claude Code usage actually went

15 July 2026 · on the Authrty blog

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.

Refine: Bringing Transparency to AI-Assisted Writing

14 April 2025

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.

Who are the dumpers? The Token-as-a-Product paradigm

27 March 2025

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.

Fixing Cosmos Governance With Fully Homomorphic Encryption

29 January 2025

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.

Elsewhere

I also occasionally write on the Authrty blog and on the Sydyk blog.