Writing
Notes on shipping AI that gets used and what that does to a team’s week.
Zero to 0.5
AI rollouts that prescribe die in two weeks. The one that worked took people halfway, stopped, and measured what happened next.
The system that built this site
This site was designed, reviewed, and shipped by the AI system I run. It still is, 300+ agent runs on. The AI argued, built, and deployed; the calls were mine.
Recurring AI jobs and the bolt-on trap
The choice hiding inside every recurring AI job: bolt it on, or run it on real plumbing.
AI vs automation: most of your workflow shouldn’t be AI
The skill is using as little AI as the job actually needs.
Your AI didn’t break. It drifted.
AI processes don’t fail loudly. They quietly stop fitting the job. Here’s what catches it.
The two loops every AI process needs
A review loop catches today’s mistake. A feedback loop stops you making it forever.
Your AI is a mirror. It reflects you, good and bad.
AI has no standards of its own. It reflects yours: thin in, confident nonsense out.
Your AI is a junior, not an oracle
Stop arguing about 90% accuracy. Manage AI like a capable junior who’s occasionally, confidently wrong.
If one of these sounds like your week, talk to me.