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Industry Foundation Classes: the open schema that is also your exit clause
IFC (ISO 16739-1:2024) is not just a file format — it is the open, Creative-Commons schema that keeps your building's data yours. A PAZ foundation essay.
openBIM Is a Procurement Decision — the Politics Hiding in Your File Format
openBIM is a governance choice about who owns your building's data for life. Test the vendor claim, write one IDS rule, and draft the exit clause first.
Grok 4.6 Ships Into Your Toolchain by Default — Write the Exit Clause First
Grok 4.6 lands in Cursor, Copilot and Bedrock at $2/$6 per million tokens. Pin the model string, log every call, and govern the default before it governs you.
Zero-Trust Architecture: There Is No Inside, Only the Next Request
A PAZ foundation essay on Zero-Trust Architecture — NIST SP 800-207, BeyondCorp, and why the jobsite of 2026 must verify every request, not trust location.
Before you let a model draw: Dr. Mikhael Johanes' BSS AI talk
1 Sept 2026: Dr. Mikhael Johanes opens PAZ's BSS Edition XIV with a talk on what an ML model really does when it reads a design brief. Free, open door.
Held up by a service: what the Hielotron teaches the smart building
Prada Poole's 1976 Seville ice rink stood on air and vanished in one night — the honest ancestor of every smart building held up by a running BMS and a licence server.
Mojo Wants Your Hot Loops — Read the Compiler Licence First
Modular's Mojo pairs Python syntax with GPU kernels and real speed — but the compiler stays closed until 2026. Trial it, benchmark it, and write the exit clause first.
Review of the Week — W27: The Week We Stopped Renting Our Own Buildings
W27 recap: zoning-as-code, the BIM format tax, locally-signed BMS control and PAZ-BOX payback math — one spine, ownership. Draw your dependency graph.
CS336: Stanford Teaches the LLM From Scratch — and Why That Beats the Black Box
Stanford's CS336 makes you build an LLM from scratch — no API. A from-scratch lens for architects auditing AI tools, lock-in, and vendor exit clauses.
PAZ Kaffi Review of the Week W25: The Week AEC Learned to Draw Its Own Single Points of Failure
The week AEC learned to map its single points of failure — grid as the new AI bottleneck, vendor lock-in stress-tests, auditable BIM, and Archicad AI.
