Engineering
You Don't Need Smarter Agents. You Need a Chain of Command.
I built an entire agent operating system in one overnight session. The hardest part wasn't the AI — it was the org chart.
April 9, 20268m read
Engineering
Your Kill Switch Doesn't Work Until You've Pulled It
We ran a four-level emergency shutdown drill on our agent fleet. Two levels passed clean. Two exposed gaps that would have burned us in production.
March 31, 20268m read
Engineering
The Final 20%: When the System Still Needs You
Every autonomous system has a hidden dependency: you. I spent eight months building Principal. The last five gaps are what made it actually autonomous.
March 23, 20267m read
Engineering
The Kill Switch Problem: Emergency Stopping a Company You Didn't Build to Stop
Every system I built was designed to run autonomously. None of them were designed to stop. That's a problem when you're the only human in the org chart.
March 23, 20268m read