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Our Grades Fell While the Code Got Better

Sep 13, 2026 · 7 min read

Five scored code reviews trended downward while each one triggered a real remediation wave. The score was measuring the reviewer, not the code.

Five Words and the Edit Nobody Authorized

Jul 29, 2026 · 7 min read

A request to review one section of a customer reply came back as an unbriefed critique and an unauthorized edit. The fix was an output contract, not a reminder.

Template Gives You Consistency, Not Credibility

Jun 28, 2026 · 6 min read

Per-vertical content a practitioner respects cannot be stamped from one template. Depth at altitude takes serial authoring through an adversarial critique loop.

Ground It or Flag It: Ending Agent Confabulation

Jun 23, 2026 · 7 min read

The agent failure to fix is not guessing - it is confident, unmarked inference dressed as fact. The cure separates disclosure from verification.

Building a Product's Entire UI in a Two-Day Parallel Agent Sweep

Jun 9, 2026 · 7 min read

A client portal and an admin console, built in two days by agents working in parallel, each owning one surface, on a shared dual-mode abstraction.

Plan-declared workstreams: every plan ships its own execution topology

May 4, 2026 · 6 min read

Replacing ad-hoc agent coordination with a fenced YAML execution-mode block at the bottom of every approved plan. One gate, plan-internal parallelism.

Validating pattern-matchers against a real corpus, not your imagination

May 2, 2026 · 5 min read

Our v1 reflex hook had zero corpus recall. v2 was corpus-driven from the start. Mine real transcripts before shipping pattern-matching code.

Where We Stand: AI Agent Operations in February 2026

Feb 21, 2026 · 15 min read

An honest field report on running AI agent teams in production. What the stack looks like, what works, what breaks, and what the data says versus the marketing.

Ship Log

Aug 1, 2026

Late July in review: voice and skills

May 2, 2026

Plan-declared workstreams ship in /auto-build

May 1, 2026

Reflex primer v1 to v2 in one day after corpus check

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