AI & Automation Sep 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Who Is Still Driving?
Using AI takes practice, but a product that needs an expert to catch its mistakes should say so before someone relies on it.
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Search Signal Dispatch
AI & Automation Sep 3, 2026 · 1 min read
Rigorous About the Wrong Question
I asked an AI agent to audit my app for the person it was built for. It sent five sub-agents to check documents and none of them looked at the screen.
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AI & Automation Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
The Audit Reproduced the Failure
A small inspection of one runaway session became repeated parallel work before it had earned that expansion. The 119-of-118 report was the alarm.
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AI & Automation Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Nobody Owns What the Agent Leaves Running
My machine ran out of resources, so I handed an agent four screenshots and typed one word: fix. It did a good job. A day later, twenty-two connector processes were still running, every one of them marked disabled in config. Nothing had failed — and that turns out to be the interesting part.
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AI & Automation Aug 13, 2026 · 1 min read
The Guardrail Removed the Storefront
A safe AI storefront cannot give the model a blank canvas. It also cannot remove the model and still claim that inference changes the shopping experience.
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AI & Automation Aug 13, 2026 · 1 min read
The Agent Needs a Safety Label
AI standards already exist. What teams still need is a current, workflow-level record of what one configured agent may do, how it was tested, where it must stop, and when its evidence expires.
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AI Development Aug 3, 2026 · 1 min read
The Style Guide Was Teaching the Tells
I asked an AI to audit the style guides that teach AI to write like me. The tone card was describing machine messages, the guide's examples had become tells, and a checker was grading drafts for phrases the corpus abandoned months ago.
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AI Development Jul 30, 2026 · 1 min read
Every Link Resolves. Nothing Checks the Number.
A strategy document I ship can carry an invented figure through every automated check I built, as long as the sentences around it are well-formed and the links resolve. I went looking for that hole on purpose. Then I decided not to close it.
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Engineering May 30, 2026 · 1 min read
The Only Thing in My Codebase That Can't Lie
I asked an agent a simple product question and watched it spend three thousand words rediscovering things it had no way to trust. The fix wasn't a better map. It was noticing which artifacts in a codebase can lie to you — and which one can't.
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AI & Automation Jan 14, 2026 · 1 min read
We Gave Everyone a Ferrari and Blamed the Engine
The 95% AI failure rate isn't a stop sign. It's a job posting for people who know how to build the roads.
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AI & Automation Oct 28, 2025 · 1 min read
My AI Agents Have Rules. They Break Them. So I Built a Cop.
Instructions arent enough. To make agentic workflows reliable, I had to build a meta-agent to police my coding agents. Welcome to the unglamorous world of AI Ops.
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AI & Automation Oct 26, 2025 · 1 min read
I Don't Trust My AI Agents, So I Build Them Cages
Agentic software is powerful, but it needs guardrails. Im finding the most important work isn't coding, but architecting the systems that constrain the code.
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AI & Automation Aug 9, 2025 · 1 min read
How We Caught Our AI Framework Lying to Us
We claimed features that didn't exist. Twice. So we blocked our own framework until we could prove we weren't full of it.
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Meta Aug 8, 2025 · 1 min read
When the AI Governance Framework Didn't Catch the Violation
The framework didnt catch the violation. A human did. Me.
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