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
Business models, strategic economics, and creative leverage in the AI era.
Economic Edges
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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.- Published on
Product-market fit is legacy infrastructure. The new question isn't whether customers want your product. It's whether the models know your category exists.- Published on
I asked my AI agent how it wants to remember things. It redesigned its own memory system, ran a self-eval, diagnosed its blindspots, and improved recall from 60% to 93% — for two dollars. The interesting part isn't the benchmark. It's what happens when you treat an AI as a participant in its own cognitive architecture.- Published on
ZAIGOOD was a real Delaware C-Corp I dissolved after years of compliance drag. This week I rebuilt it in 48 hours with an autonomous AI build loop, tried to submit it to Product Hunt for a YC interview slot, and missed the deadline by exactly 60 seconds.- Published on
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.
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