Field Notes from Running AI Agent Teams in Production
One studio, AI agent teams, real costs, honest failures. Most AI development content is vendor marketing or tutorials. This is what it actually looks like to ship products with agents.
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Articles
Deep dives on a single topic.
What Happens When Your AI Agent Briefing Lies
The session briefing said 10 alerts. There were 270. Fixing it took four tracks, $741 in compute, and a captain who refused to accept done.
Read article →Agents Building UI They Have Never Seen
Seventeen PRs, three editor panels, a navigation redesign, and 40 hours of agent time. The human directing the work has never opened the app in a browser.
Design Specs as Agent Infrastructure
Agents building UI from text descriptions produce divergent implementations. Design specs loaded at startup solved this.
A Design Tool Bake-Off - Figma MCP vs Google Stitch
We tested Figma MCP and Google Stitch head-to-head on the same three UI panels. Sixty API calls versus three.
Ship Log
What changed this week.