Agents

The Agent Stays Up Late, Not Me

Every senior engineer knows the right way to set up a codebase. None of them do it. Here’s the four-stage framework we use — The Ratchet — to take a vibe-coded project all the way to a thing you’d trust in production, and the punchline about why this only just became worth doing.

Most teams have always known they should be running tests, type-checking, security audits, accessibility checks, dead-code analysis, prose linting, and a coverage floor. Most teams run two of those. Here’s why that math has finally inverted, and the four-stage framework we use to ratchet a vibe-coded project to a hardened one.

War of The Claws

In 1938, a young Orson Welles captivated and terrified radio listeners with a fictional Martian invasion, inciting a real panic across the nation. Last weekend, more of my family and friends called be about playful AI...

AI Agents: The Race Against Us

In American folklore, there’s a legendary railroad worker named John Henry who raced a steam-powered drill through a mountain. Spoiler The story goes that John Henry beat the machine in that race by sheer grit, only t...

Agent Experience (AX) Design - Designing for New "Users"

Welcome to a New Era of Experience with AI Agents by Kat Holmes of Salesforce makes a compelling case that as AI agents become “digital coworkers,” they must be treated as a new kind of user—with their own goals, need...