Jason Burt — essays and interactive experiments where speedruns meet thermodynamics, code meets fiction, and the fun is in the doing.https://jasonburt.page/https://jasonburt.page/blog/ai-shouldnt-pick-your-candidate-it-should-check-their-story/https://jasonburt.page/blog/ai-shouldnt-pick-your-candidate-it-should-check-their-story/After my favorite candidate turned out to be fake, I wanted to ground the interview against the paper trail. Every tool I had was either useless at it — or legally radioactive. Here's the line that actually matters.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasonburt.page/blog/code-review-capacity/https://jasonburt.page/blog/code-review-capacity/Code review assumes a human can read what ships. That assumption runs out of room — one engineer, then a team, then the code nobody wrote.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasonburt.page/blog/i-loved-that-candidate-he-wasnt-real/https://jasonburt.page/blog/i-loved-that-candidate-he-wasnt-real/What hiring across operations, product, and AI taught me about a screening system that quietly stopped working — and the slightly crazy experiment I ran to fix it.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasonburt.page/blog/pinochle-round/https://jasonburt.page/blog/pinochle-round/Pinochle is a small, honest model of information theory in a market — what to share, when to share it, and the all-or-nothing prize that good signaling buys you.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasonburt.page/blog/zelda-time-travel/https://jasonburt.page/blog/zelda-time-travel/A deterministic minigame, a fixed seed, and the cheapest version of the past the universe will actually sell you.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT