the operator
Michael
operator · itethered · I Am Easy to Use LLC
I name the subject. I pick the register. I sign the work. Nothing ships that I have not decided.
I am not a doctor and I was not a coder. I noticed the thing in an article on a Sunday morning, had a word for it by Thursday, and built a place for the word to live before the next week was out. The word is tethered. This is the place.
I built this site with AI tools — they help me write fast and build pages I could not build alone. That is not a confession; it is the subject. The publication that warns about leaning on these systems is made by someone who uses them every day. I would rather say that out loud than pretend otherwise. The angle, the receipts, and the byline are mine.
The discipline I have spent the most time in is quality assurance — looking for the failure that passed every test except the one that mattered. itethered is QA pointed at the gap between what a technology was supposed to do and what it is actually doing to the people who use it.