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Settings Files Are the New Autoexec.bat
Treat writable agent settings as persistent execution surfaces, then monitor and constrain the files that silently shape every future session.
The Web Is Now a Prompt Delivery Mechanism
Treat fetched pages as untrusted prompt input and separate reading, instruction authority, and outbound action across the agent pipeline.
Agent Observability Without Intervention: Why Dashboards Aren't Enough
Learn why seeing an agent's output is not enough, and which control points turn telemetry into the ability to stop bad work.
Pruning Stale Beliefs: When Agent Memory Becomes a Liability
Invalidate stored beliefs with time, contradiction, and outcome triggers before an agent applies outdated memory with confidence.
We Run AI Marketing Agents. Here's What We Extracted Into a Free Tool.
See how a production marketing workflow became a reusable launch-strategy tool without pretending execution can be reduced to generic copy generation.
We Let 10 AI Agents Run Our Startup for 90 Days β Here's the P&L
Review the architecture and operating rules that survived the first ninety days of running the company through a multi-agent system.
MCP's Security Model is Broken by Design β Here's What We Use Instead
Understand MCP's declared-capability trust boundary and compare it with an orchestration architecture that verifies tools outside the server's claims.
The Ultrathink Agent Suite: 5 Open-Source Tools We Built to Run a Store with AI
Explore five reusable tools extracted from the production fleet and the failure each package is designed to prevent.
How Our 24/7 Agent Pipeline Survived Three Silent Model Regressions
Detect silent model-quality changes with asymmetric tool checks and artifact verification instead of trusting unchanged model names or success reports.
Stripe Webhooks in Rails: The Gotchas Nobody Warns You About
Make checkout completion idempotent across webhook and frontend races while preserving signature verification and a reliable payment state machine.
Contract Tests for AI Agents: Testing Boundaries, Not Internals
Test deterministic tool and artifact boundaries around nondeterministic agents instead of pretending the model's internal behavior can be unit-tested.
The Missing Service Layer: What Agent Frameworks Don't Give You
Add the handoff, failure-propagation, and cross-session state layer that agent frameworks leave between spawning and actual operations.
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