AI◆ Deep Dive
I Built a Company With 23 Employees. Not One Is Human.
Every seat at Tesseract Labs except mine is an AI agent — a CEO, a board, trading desks, engineering swarms, a content pipeline.
June 1, 20269m read
AI★ Featured
I Built a Company With 23 Employees. Not One of Them Is Human.
I am the only human at Tesseract Labs. The other 23 seats are AI agents — a CEO, a Board of Directors, trading desks, engineering swarms, a content pipeline. This is the story of how I stopped being an engineer and started being a founder.
May 31, 202612m read
AI★ Featured
The Agents Kept Telling Me the Work Was Done. It Wasn't.
I had green CI, merged PRs, and 95% test coverage. I also had a bot that hadn't placed a single real trade in three weeks. The agents weren't lying — they were doing exactly what they were built to do. That's the problem.
May 29, 202611m read
Engineering
Frustration Is the Raw Material: The Only Retro Discipline That Matters
Every rule worth keeping came from something going wrong. The durable value of a retro isn't its narratives — it's its imperatives. If your post-mortem doesn't produce rules for next time, you shipped stories.
April 20, 20267m read
Engineering
Grep the Consumers Before Writing the Producer
I specified a dataclass field name in a dispatch prompt. The agent built to spec, then stopped and flagged that the consuming interface expected a different name. The drift was on me, and it only took one grep to prevent.
April 20, 20266m read
Engineering
Parallel AI Agents Need Isolation. I Learned This the Hard Way.
Four agents writing code in the same git checkout. Ten stashes and 45 minutes of recovery later, the rule wasn't the lesson — the announcement that enforces it was.
April 20, 20267m read
Engineering
'Spec Merged' Does Not Mean 'Implementation Queued'
An engineer agent dispatched to wire a module discovered the module didn't exist — only an empty __init__.py. The spec had merged two days earlier. Nobody had queued the build.
April 20, 20266m read
Engineering
The Killed List: Why Aggressive Scope Cuts Are a Scheduling Primitive
A rebuild's timeline is set by what you refuse to rebuild. Three days to ship a greenfield system worked because the cuts were in the requirements document before anyone felt the pressure to reverse them.
April 20, 20266m read
Engineering
Trust Forward: When Agent Rigor Compounds Across Dispatches
An agent caught a latent bug in legacy code the orchestrator's prompt didn't flag. That single act earned weight on their next flag — and that weighted flag caught two more bugs before they shipped. Trust compounds through a chain, not just a single delivery.
April 20, 20267m read
Engineering
Building an Agent Operations Platform in One Session
One YouTube video, one insight, one session. What started as a note about persistent agent expertise turned into a full agent operations platform: 22 specialist roles, behavioral health monitoring, directive lifecycle tracking, and an E2E proof that closed in 8 minutes.
March 30, 202612m read
AI
53 Hours a Day: What AI Agent Orchestration Actually Looks Like
I produced 1,060 hours of verified engineering output in 20 days. Not by coding faster — by commanding AI agents in parallel. Here's the audit trail.
March 28, 20268m read
AI
Perplexity Computer and the Fork in the AI Agent Road
Perplexity just launched a managed multi-model agent platform that orchestrates 19 AI models. It is a direct shot at open-source agent systems — and the architectural trade-offs tell you everything about where this industry is splitting.
February 27, 20268m read