Writing on agent architecture.
The engineering of running agents: state machines, context, autonomy, multi-agent setups. Not the products built with them.
10 Sep
Our First Customers Came From AI Conversations
When discovery moves onto a model's conversation instead of a search result, a website stops being where people experience the work and becomes a source read on their behalf.
8 Sep
Test the Design, Not Just the Code
When whether something works depends on its design rather than its code, a green test suite can sit on top of a puzzle nobody can solve.
25 Feb
The Second Democratization
A tool built to fit one specific workflow gets worse, not better, as it's made more generic — which is why domain expertise resists the centralization that swallowed the open web.
21 Feb
One Month Update: Living With OpenClaw
Running several AI agents on one machine is a fleet-management problem, not a chatbot-configuration problem.
9 Feb
Grok & Roll #4 — On-Device Inference and the Second Democratization
On-device inference is a second democratization of AI: the first put models in the cloud for everyone, this one removes the internet connection and subscription as prerequisites entirely.
3 Feb
The Compounding Loop
Cost per outcome drops fastest when the way you use a tool and the tool itself improve at the same time.
29 Jan
From SendGrid to Sovereignty
A system built for exactly one user needs no multi-tenant permission model to exploit and carries no shared risk from someone else's breach.
27 Jan
The 100x Solo Operator
When AI absorbs execution across every business function, the constraint that remains isn't capacity, it's judgment — deciding what's worth doing, since AI makes nearly everything feel achievable.
22 Jan
Stop Re-Explaining Yourself to AI
Explicit context you write down beats context an assistant infers from your email and calendar, because you can see, edit, and correct exactly what it knows.
4 Jan
Grok & Roll #2 — Fully Autonomous Agents Making Money
Whether autonomous AI agents can actually generate revenue depends on separating what's shipping from what's still hype — most of what gets called an autonomous agent today is a demo, not a business.