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
Deployed Is Not Operational: The Session That Made 24 Agents Actually Talk
Engineering
The broker was live. The fleet was registered. Every request returned 401. The distance between 'deployed' and 'operational' is where most systems quietly die.
April 2, 20267m 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