Agentic AI thesis, coordination rituals, and messaging protocol design.
Systems engineering in the age of AI
Build reality-graded systems
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
Spam bots, engagement decay, and defensive protocol design.
Attention Warfare
Latest dispatches
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OpenAI shipped Symphony — a daemon that monitors your issue tracker and deploys agents to close tickets. The README says it works best in codebases that have adopted harness engineering. So you click the link. Then you find the Ralph citation. Then it gets interesting.- Published on
A friend sent three questions about agents over WhatsApp. Where do they live? What's the interface? Where do they report back? The answers reveal a mental model most people are missing — and why the plumber has to live inside the house.- Published on
I accidentally named it SDD in October. Spec-Driven Development claimed that acronym. So: SkDD — the methodology I have been running in production since a git init at 1:54 AM.- Published on
There are only two positions in the 2026 labor market: principal of your own agents, or labor for someone else's. Jack Dorsey just ran the proof.- Published on
AI labs burn out their employees with civilization-scale competitive pressure. That burnout radiates outward — to developers, then educators, then anyone whose tools keep shifting every 90 days. The release cadence is the stress wave. Everyone downstream absorbs it.
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