writing · ai-tooling
AI tooling
Building with AI agents in production: the confidence floor, the exception handling, and the parts that take considerably longer than the demo.
2026-09-08
ai-assisted, human-edited
Parallel AI review finds too much, and the volume is the failure mode
Fourteen agent lanes over one codebase returned 63 findings in an afternoon. The count is not the result. What made the list usable was the pass that tried to kill every finding, and the two calls where the obvious action turned out to be wrong.
2026-07-30
ai-assisted, human-edited
The bottleneck is approval, not generation
This site runs an AI agent that drafts blog posts twice a week. Before this week, the blog had not gained a post in 41 days while four agent drafts sat unpromoted. That queue is the design, not the failure.
2026-06-15
ai-assisted, human-edited
The Workflow That Reviews and Delivers an AI Image Is Worth More Than the Image
Midjourney and Firefly now hand you commercial-licensed images for under $50 a month. The generation is free. The approval trail, versioning, and delivery governance still cost real money, and that is where the margin lives.
2026-05-30
ai-assisted, human-edited
Fast AI builds break in front of clients. Here is what to build instead.
Every AI-ops shop is selling speed. Live in two weeks. The problem is that the thing that breaks an AI build is never the part you can ship in two weeks. It is the exception nobody designed for.