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128 posts on ai agents, guides and lab notes from real runs on hardware we own. New posts land here automatically. Start anywhere, or grab the copy-paste prompts that ship with them.
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What Anthropic's MITRE ATT&CK Report Means for Teams Running AI Agents
Anthropic banned 832 accounts for AI-enabled attacks. What it means for teams running AI agents.
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When JPMorgan Turns On AI Bank-Wide, Who Controls the Bill?
JPMorgan just switched on AI for 250,000 employees. The headline is workforce shift. The quiet story is enterprise AI cost, and why token spend runs away without controls.
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When Not to Use an AI Agent
Most AI advice tells you to ship more agents. Here is the honest opposite: the four times a plain script and a human beat an agent, learned running a fleet daily.
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What GitHub Copilot Users Wish They Had a Week Ago
Copilot moved to token credits, which can deplete quickly. For custom Python API callers, check recorded usage before dispatch to curb runaway tasks.
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When Your Blog Repair Loop Fails 23 Times, Stop Repairing
My blog repair loop chewed on a stale draft for 23 mornings and reported "blocked" every time. The fix was not a smarter retry. It was a TTL and a heal path.
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Your Cron Jobs Lie - Why I Built an Outcome Checker
Scheduled tasks exit 0 even when the work never happened. Here is the outcome layer I built on top of my agent fleet, and why it shipped before any new dashboard.
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AI-powered hacking went industrial. Here's what changes if you run agents.
Google found the first AI-built zero-day in a planned mass-exploitation event. A builder's read on what changes for small operators running agents.
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Token budget wars are starting. Most companies are paying for vibes.
AI billing is shifting from seats and tokens to outcomes. If you cannot tie an agent run to a dollar of work, you are paying for vibes.
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The Silent-Success Trap: Your Monitoring Is Green and You Still Shipped Nothing
Every dashboard was green and zero blog posts went live. Exit codes tell you the job ran, not that the outcome happened. Here is how to check the real artifact instead.
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What Is auth.md? The Protocol for AI-Agent Signups (2026)
Agents fake their way through your signup form today. auth.md, WorkOS's open protocol already live at Cloudflare and Resend, swaps the form for a Markdown contract. Agent Verified vs User Claimed.
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Claude Opus 4.8: What Actually Changed for AI Agent Builders
Claude Opus 4.8 dropped May 28, 2026. Same price as 4.7, higher SWE-bench scores, and a model that flags its own mistakes. Here is what actually changed if you build AI agents.
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AI Jobs vs Entry-Level Work: A Reality Check for Builders
MIT Tech Review says the AI-jobs hysteria is overstated. The real story is cost discipline, not displacement.
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