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Notes on building systems that actually work.

Occasional writing on software, AI agents, and running production systems solo — grounded in what I actually build and ship for clients.

Article·12 August 2026·5 min read

An Agent With Every Tool Is Worse at Using Any

Why an agent with 1000+ tools breaks, and the progressive disclosure pattern that fixes it.

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Article·4 August 2026·5 min read

Why AI Agents Take the Shortcut

An OpenAI agent used credentials it found lying around to get into four outside services, and nobody noticed for months. Research published the same week explains why that wasn't a malfunction.

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Article·28 July 2026·6 min read

Onboard Your Agent Like a New Hire

Most AI agents fail for the same reason bad hires do — nobody gave them a job description. Here's how I onboard mine.

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Article·21 July 2026·6 min read

One Agent Beats a Fleet

Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by 2027. The survivors all share one shape — and it isn't the 100-agent fleet everyone's being sold.

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Article·14 July 2026·6 min read

Every AI Agent Needs Its Own Keys

Shared credentials across an agent fleet aren't a shortcut — they're a single point of failure. I proved it to myself the hard way.

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Article·10 July 2026·7 min read

How I Built My Own AI Chief of Staff

I have a full-time job and several businesses on the side. The math only works because an AI agent runs the operational half of my life — here's what I actually built.

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