Building Approval Gates AI Agents Can't Route Around
How to wire human-in-the-loop on tool calls — and why system prompt instructions like "always ask before sending" don't actually hold.
Ai-Agents
6 articles about ai-agents - lessons from building and scaling real software.
May 19, 2026
May 13, 2026
Your AI Team Doesn't Need More People — It Needs Agents
What 'supported by a fleet of agents' means in practice: which tasks automate, which don't, and where the ROI breaks down. Evidence from Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and Shopify.
Apr 22, 2026
Governing AI Agents Without Killing Them: What Actually Works in Production
Most AI agent governance advice targets boards, not builders. Three failure patterns, real TypeScript examples, and what a CTO should do Monday morning.
Apr 6, 2026
Shrinking a Production Prompt by 28% With Autonomous Optimization
How I used autoresearch to run 65 autonomous prompt optimization iterations on a production LLM agent, cutting it 28% while retaining 98% output quality.
Mar 25, 2026
Four Dimensions of Agent-Ready Codebase Design
AI agents produce better output when the codebase is ready for them. Here are the four dimensions of codebase readiness that account for most of the gap.
Feb 17, 2026
How AI Agents Remember Things
AI agents are stateless by default. Here's how memory systems actually work, covering the storage patterns, lifecycle triggers, and architecture behind agents that remember you.