2026.07|6 min#ai#agents#reliability#human-in-the-loop
Teach Your Agent to Ask for Help
Full autonomy is the wrong goal. The best agents know exactly when to stop and hand the decision back to you.
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2026.07|6 min#ai#agents#reliability#engineering
Give Your Agent an Undo Button
You can bound what an agent touches and measure when it fails. Neither one saves you if the mistake it makes cannot be taken back.
2026.06|6 min#ai#agents#evals#reliability
Agents Fail Quietly
A passing test and a working workflow are not the same thing. The gap between them is where production breaks.
2026.06|6 min#ai#agents#security#product
Agent Permissions Are Product Design
The next reliable AI workflow starts with deciding what the agent is allowed to touch.
2026.06|7 min#ai#agents#engineering#productivity
Agent Runbooks Beat Better Prompts
The best AI work happens when delegation is repeatable, visible, and bounded.
2026.06|7 min#ai#security#engineering#building
AI Made Bugs Cheap to Find
The new security bottleneck is triage, patching, and judgment.
2026.06|6 min#ai#engineering#codex#productivity
The Agent Left the IDE
Computer use turns AI coding from text generation into software operation.
2026.05|7 min#ai#engineering#productivity#building
I Haven't Touched Code in One Month
AI did not make me obsolete. It moved my job up the stack.
2026.05|7 min#ai#building#teams#reflection
I Replaced My Team With AI. Here's What I Miss.
Solo building is a superpower. But superpowers have side effects.
2026.05|7 min#ai#distribution#startups#marketing
Distribution Is the New Code
AI can build anything. The hard part is getting anyone to care.
2026.05|6 min#ai#engineering#leadership#product
Your Taste Is Your Moat
AI made execution cheap. The scarce resource now is knowing what to build.
2026.04|8 min#ai#startups#building#economics
The $0 Startup: Why Your Next Company Should Cost Almost Nothing to Build
The most expensive part of building used to be people. AI just zeroed out that line item.
2026.04|7 min#security#ai#engineering
Security Incidents on the Rise: Is Vibe Coding the Common Thread?
As AI-generated code floods production, the security bills are starting to come due
2026.04|6 min#engineering#leadership#career#teams
The 10x Engineer Is a Myth
What Actually Has 10x Impact
2026.04|7 min#ai#design#web
No More Ugly Websites: AI Killed Every Excuse for Bad Design
Billion-dollar companies still ship interfaces from 2003. The tools to fix that now cost $0 and take minutes.
2026.04|7 min#ai#startups#building
Ship It Yourself: Why the Best Time to Build Is Right Now
AI didn't just lower the barrier to entry. It removed it entirely.
2026.04|6 min#ai#engineering#productivity
From Co-Pilots to Colleagues: How AI Agents Changed My Engineering Workflow
A year of working alongside AI teammates reshaped how I think about building software
2025.02|7 min#ai#engineering#productivity
A Real-World Coding Story: Devin AI as My Co-Pilot
What happens when you hand off a real task to an AI teammate
2025.02|6 min#growth#engineering
Own Your Career
5 Lessons to Drive Your Promotions
2025.02|4 min#leadership#career
The Power of Saying No
And How It Can Save Your Sanity