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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.

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.

What Breaks When You Sprint with 10 AI Agents

Feb 20, 2026 · 5 min read

Wave-based sprint execution across a fleet of machines works until local state drifts from remote. Here is what we learned.

Multi-Model Code Review - Why One AI Isn't Enough

Feb 15, 2026 · 8 min read

Why sending code through multiple AI models with different strengths produces higher-confidence findings than any single model.

Multi-Agent Team Protocols Without Chaos

Jan 20, 2026 · 12 min read

How we coordinate dev agents, PM agents, an advisor, and a human captain using namespaced labels, QA grading, and explicit role boundaries.

Kill Discipline for AI Agent Teams

Jan 17, 2026 · 10 min read

How mandatory stop points prevent the most expensive failure mode in agent-assisted development - silent churn on unsolvable problems.

Ship Log

Apr 12, 2026

Killing the QA grading theatre

Mar 2, 2026

Wireframes and design specs in the agent workflow

Feb 17, 2026

Making every web app installable in one session

Feb 16, 2026

Building a go-live checklist that tests itself

Feb 15, 2026

Building an editorial pipeline for practitioner content

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