Agentic AI thesis, coordination rituals, and messaging protocol design.
Systems engineering in the age of AI
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Field notes from an engineer who treats debugging as a universal craft - from agentic AI deployments to information beings and governance crises. Tools for builders, operators, investors, and policymakers.
Series Map
Build logs, workflow upgrades, and how digital tools actually ship.
Craft & Shipping
Business models, strategic economics, and creative leverage in the AI era.
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I was feeding my son banana yogurt when I saw Hugging Face announce a new Papers skill for AI agents. Someone replied: "This needs a CLI." So I told my agents to build it. 45 minutes later, hfpaper was live — a single Go binary that gives any agent a research librarian. What it unlocks is bigger than the tool.- Published on
For two years I lived in tmux. Then I started orchestrating an AI swarm through Telegram. My terminal skills didn't atrophy — they got encoded into a markdown file. Now I'm bringing the swarm home.- Published on
MCP vs CLI is the wrong debate. Both are wrappers around the same thing. The real question is what happens when AI agents stop using our interfaces entirely.- Published on
The most valuable territory in AI right now is concepts that exist in practice but don't have names. Six categories that the models don't know about yet, and what claiming them looks like.- Published on
In October 2021, Facebook renamed itself Meta. They didn't take a word. They took the prefix that generates every other word. A case study in concept colonization.
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