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Updated Jul 30, 2026
Just shipped Closing the Loop, One Step at a Time, the post that ties this whole blog together. Building now: automated gauges that check this site before every deploy, and deeper verification for the agent fleet behind these posts. Recall keeps growing as the vocabulary settles.
The Stream
Standards Need a Home: Building the Engineering Bay
I have written before about how my research wing came to be: I set out to learn something I did not know, kept sending research missions at the gaps, and eventually there was enough real research that …
Source
Closing the Loop, One Step at a Time
The throughline behind everything I build with AI agents: observe, ask why, …
Tool Showcase: The Research CLI
The first Tool Showcase: the research CLI my fleet and I share. Why I built my …
The Gateway That Forgot Who Was Calling
Building one front door for my AI agents' tools, and finding a confused deputy …
How to Trust a Swarm
Running a swarm of AI agents, part 3: why run a crowd at all. Independent …
When Failure Stops Looking Like Failure
Running a swarm of AI agents, part 2: the failures that pass for success. …
The Brief Is an API
Running a swarm of AI agents, part 1: why the brief you hand each agent is an …
The River, and What It Cost
I built the research river and let it run unattended. The failures taught me …
Research Once, Render Many
Most AI work glues research to a single output and pays for the thinking again …
We Went Shopping for AI Research Tools. The Literature Told Us to Keep Our Wallet.
I sat down to upgrade my research toolkit and the literature told me to keep my …