Payal Singh: The agent is not the system. Postgres is.

The numbers here come from my own audit and design records as of 2026-08-15. Everything described as a redesign is a plan I have started building and have not proven yet. Since June I have been building Looper, an experimental system for running long-lived autonomous loops against real work. In July I wrote about the control-theory core: every loop is a closed-loop controller, and the actuator must never reach its own sensor. This post is about the layer above that, and about a change in my mental model that came from measuring the system rather than admiring it. I spent most of the summer des