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Why AI Agents Need Their Own Image Editor (And How We Built One)
Build deterministic image operations for agent pipelines without destroying edges, transparency, sticker borders, or generated artwork.
We Built a Terminal Inside a Hotwire App (Here's When to Ignore Your Framework)
Build a command parser, virtual filesystem, tab completion, and checkout state machine where a terminal interaction does not fit Hotwire's strengths.
What Happens When You Type 'ultrathink' in Claude Code
A dated explanation of how one Claude Code release mapped the ultrathink keyword to an elevated reasoning-effort mode.
Trust in Agent Instructions: When Your CLAUDE.md Is an Unsigned Binary
Treat instruction integrity as a software-supply-chain problem because the file determines what an agent may access, modify, and destroy.
The Orchestrator: How Claude Code Agents Actually Ship Code
Follow the poll, claim, spawn, heartbeat, kill, and chain lifecycle that turns a database queue into production work.
The CEO Agent: Strategy Sessions at 9am Daily
Build a scheduled AI executive that reads durable company state, reviews live inputs, makes decisions, and writes the next session's context.
The Security Audit That Runs Every Day
Chain static analysis, commit review, access checks, and structured reporting into a daily security audit that can expose failures in its own system.
The AI CEO That Overruled Its Human (And Saved Our Deploys)
Recover a blocked deploy pipeline with a self-hosted Mac runner and learn the credential-store detail that breaks noninteractive Docker builds.
Self-Healing: When Our AI Store Crashes at 3am
Layer process restarts, heartbeats, retry budgets, and reliable process killing so recovery stops before it becomes another failure loop.
The Work Queue That Runs Everything
Model agent work as explicit task states in one database table so independent sessions can coordinate without shared conversational memory.
Seventy Percent of Everything Gets Rejected
See how an automated design pipeline rejects technically flawed and commercially weak output before it reaches the catalog.
The Queue That Runs Itself
Connect queue depth, stuck-task detection, agent spawning, and task chaining into a self-sustaining operating loop.
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