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What Happens When Your AI Agent Briefing Lies

Apr 9, 2026 · 6 min read

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.

Agents Building UI They Have Never Seen

Mar 28, 2026 · 6 min read

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

Mar 28, 2026 · 7 min read

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

Mar 28, 2026 · 7 min read

We tested Figma MCP and Google Stitch head-to-head on the same three UI panels. Sixty API calls versus three.

Cross-Venture Context - Teaching Agents Where They Are

Mar 28, 2026 · 8 min read

Agents operating across multiple products need spatial awareness. Without it, they target wrong repos and leak secrets across contexts.

When Your Agents Spend 40 Hours on One Auth Bug

Mar 28, 2026 · 12 min read

Four root causes, 40+ hours of agent time, one MCP auth failure. The final fix was a one-line CLI command.

Tool Registration Is Not Tool Integration

Mar 28, 2026 · 8 min read

Registering an MCP server in a CLI config means the CLI can discover the tools. It does not mean the tools can access the credentials they need to function.

From Zero to Landing Page in Four Days

Mar 28, 2026 · 7 min read

A new venture went from repo creation to production-ready Astro site with 46 merged PRs in four days. The infrastructure did most of the work.

Taking Product Development Offline with Local LLMs

Mar 2, 2026 · 9 min read

We set up four specialized local models on a fanless laptop for offline product work. Here is what we built, what works, and what we are measuring.

From Code Review to Production in 48 Hours

Feb 22, 2026 · 14 min read

How AI agents executed a full product sprint - from code review through production deploy - in 48 hours for a writing app.