<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Journal on Stephanie Tess van Slyck</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/</link><description>Recent content in Journal on Stephanie Tess van Slyck</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>© 2026 Stephanie Tess van Slyck</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://tessellation.dk/posts/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Where MCP Would Fit in a Project Like Standflow</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-10-02-where-mcp-would-fit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-10-02-where-mcp-would-fit/</guid><description>Model Context Protocol is not a replacement for a REST API. A short reflection on what it is, and where it would actually belong in a system I have already built.</description></item><item><title>The Excursion I Missed, and Building for a Place I Had Not Seen</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-29-excursion-i-missed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-29-excursion-i-missed/</guid><description>The class visited the customer site. I could not attend, so this is about building for a context I only knew second-hand, and where the project stands.</description></item><item><title>The Legal and Ethical Side</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-25-legal-and-ethical/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-25-legal-and-ethical/</guid><description>The EU AI Act puts educational assessment in the high-risk category, which lands directly on the rubric assessor I built. Plus copyright in RAG, and the energy cost nobody sees.</description></item><item><title>Secrets, Escaping and Safe Choices</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-21-secrets-escaping-and-safe-choices/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-21-secrets-escaping-and-safe-choices/</guid><description>How keys, escaping and consent are handled across my two projects, and why the safest choices were the ones that removed the unsafe option rather than guarding it.</description></item><item><title>Building a Whole Project with a Code Agent</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-18-building-a-whole-project-with-a-code-agent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-18-building-a-whole-project-with-a-code-agent/</guid><description>I used an AI code agent to take over and finish an entire group project, Standflow. This is the honest version: what the agent did, what I kept for myself, the guardrails that made it safe, the near-disaster, and what actually makes agentic development work.</description></item><item><title>Specs as the Theory Behind the Code</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-14-specs-as-theory/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-14-specs-as-theory/</guid><description>Peter Naur argued the real product of programming is the theory the programmers hold, not the code. Working with a code agent makes that argument louder.</description></item><item><title>Standflow: From an Overflowing Inbox to a Working System</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-14-standflow-manor-house-to-system/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-14-standflow-manor-house-to-system/</guid><description>The project case: a real customer with a real problem, the idea we proposed, and the system we sketched and then built to solve it. I was not on the company visit, so my part started from what the team brought back.</description></item><item><title>Architecture of an LLM-Backed Rubric Assessor</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-04-rubric-assessor-architecture/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-09-04-rubric-assessor-architecture/</guid><description>How a small Express service turns a rubric and a student report into structured, schema-validated AI feedback: the data flow, the prompt contract, the error handling, and how it was tested without a real API call.</description></item><item><title>Building an AI Rubric Assessor: What Today Actually Taught Me</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-31-rubric-assessor-reflection/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-31-rubric-assessor-reflection/</guid><description>A personal walkthrough of building a small AI grading tool: the loose thoughts I started with, the wall I hit, and what it taught me about trusting a model to judge someone else&amp;rsquo;s work.</description></item><item><title>Code Agents: What It Actually Looks Like to Debug With One</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-28-debugging-with-a-code-agent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-28-debugging-with-a-code-agent/</guid><description/></item><item><title>RAG II: Making the Chatbot Keep Up With Itself</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-24-rag-automation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-24-rag-automation/</guid><description/></item><item><title>RAG I: Three Ways to Build a Chatbot, One Afternoon to Compare Them</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-21-rag-first-attempt/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-21-rag-first-attempt/</guid><description/></item><item><title>AIDA Kickoff: Bringing AI Into the Portfolio</title><link>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-17-aida-kickoff/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://tessellation.dk/posts/2026-08-17-aida-kickoff/</guid><description/></item></channel></rss>