Technical Decisions
11 recent decisions
Icicle viability gate: AI inference benchmark on H100 decides go/no-go
May 7, 2026 · technical · high88% confidence
Set a clear decision gate for the Icicle project: viability is determined by performance on a real-world AI inference workload, not synthetic benchmarks. Omer to run the RLC Pro AI benchmark on an H100 GPU. 2-3x synthetic CPU/memory degradation is acceptable IF power savings are significant for AI inference; otherwise project gets punted.
People: Nathan Blackham, Ryan Smith, Omer, Ahmer Mumtaz, Jeff Uphoff, Damen Knight, Ani Fox Bochenkov, Bjorn Hovland
Fuzzball SaaS Prepaid Token Billing Model with Unified Portal Backend
Mar 21, 2026 · technical · high93% confidence
Drove adoption of prepaid token ('CIQ Tokens') billing model for Fuzzball SaaS MVP, with unified Portal backend as single source of truth for all user accounts and token balances. Free tier deferred to fast-follow. MVP requires account + credit card to run workflows.
People: Greg Kurtzer, Bjorn Hovland, Jonathon Anderson, Chris Wolford
Gate Fuzzball SaaS GTM on Working Prototype — Assign Michelle
Mar 21, 2026 · technical · medium92% confidence
Agreed to move forward on Fuzzball SaaS GTM but gated it on having a working prototype first. Suggested Michelle as the resource to stand up a prototype on top of existing Fuzzball, accepting she's not the ideal person but can make progress. Rejected doing it 'out of band' — keep in normal product flow.
People: Greg Kurtzer, Michelle, Jonathon Anderson
AI Governance Single-Track Pivot for ISO 42001
Mar 13, 2026 · technical · high91% confidence
Pivoted AI governance from dual-track (internal vs products) to single rigorous model because CIQ products (RLCAI, Fuzzball, Werewolf) now directly integrate AI, changing the liability profile.
People: Steve Wallace, Stephen Moody, Brady Dibble, Chris Baek, Ryan Smith, Tabatha Wilmot, Brian Dawson, Michelle Novicio
Asset Management — Backend-First, Bridge to Views
Mar 11, 2026 · technical · low74% confidence
Advocated for deciding where the asset management backend should live first, then building bridges to expose it wherever needed (Jira, Rippling). Explicitly disagreed with Greg's framing that building bridges adds unnecessary complexity.
People: Greg Kurtzer, Christina, Mariah Rippee
Toyota POC — No Hotfix, Demo MPI and PBS Separately
Mar 5, 2026 · technical · high82% confidence
Decided NOT to rush a hotfix for Toyota's urgent out-of-scope MPI-via-PBS request before their Thursday director meeting. Team will demo MPI and PBS as separate working components, explain the integration bug is known, and commit to fix in ~1 week by the March 17 Reno meeting.
People: Chris Wolford, Jonathan Anderson, Bjorn Hovland, Art Tyde, Yoshi
Demanded measurable success criteria for LinuxLM project
Mar 3, 2026 · technical · medium69% confidence
Greg proposed training/fine-tuning a Linux-expert foundation LLM (LinuxLM). Peter pushed back by demanding explicit success criteria — deployment plan, evaluation methodology, and clear value proposition — before endorsing the project.
People: Greg Kurtzer, Bjorn Hovland
Assign Max as RLC-AI benchmarking plan owner with RHEL comparisons
Feb 20, 2026 · technical · medium65% confidence
Assigned Max Spevack as owner of the RLC-AI benchmarking plan in response to Greg's question about ownership. Directed that RHEL comparisons be added to exit criteria. Bjorn owns product definition (what to benchmark), Max owns technical execution (how to benchmark accurately). Max will create a one-page methodology document for the Humane pitch.
People: Max Spevack, Greg Kurtzer, Bjorn Hovland, Nathan Blackham, Damon
Directed Fuzzball team to improve logging and error observability
Feb 20, 2026 · technical · medium81% confidence
After AMD MI300 troubleshooting meeting, directed Fuzzball team (Jonathon Anderson, David Horn) that the product needs better logging and error visibility. Customers should be able to self-diagnose issues via log files instead of requiring live troubleshooting meetings with CIQ engineers.
People: Jonathon Anderson, David Horn, Chris Wolford
Committed to ensuring Greg technical direction reaches Justin
Jan 26, 2026 · technical · medium82% confidence
Committed to redirecting Justin to follow Greg architectural guidance on object storage/depot, and to be the conduit ensuring Greg technical direction reaches engineering clearly. Greg flagged that depot work was not in line with past directives.
People: Greg Kurtzer, Justin Haynes, Nathan Blackham
RLC 9.7 Launch Path Decision
Dec 19, 2025 · technical · high78% confidence
Participated in RLC 9.7 Launch planning meeting to decide path forward on release and rework priorities.
People: Nathan Blackham, Justin Haynes, Max Spevack, Brady Dibble, Sarah Almaraz, Brian Dawson