Running an AI Agent Fleet Series' Articles

Cover image for Why I Rejected an Event Bus for My Solo Agent Fleet: State Is Truth, Events Are Rumors

John

Jul 13

Why I Rejected an Event Bus for My Solo Agent Fleet: State Is Truth, Events Are Rumors

#agents #architecture #mcp #systemdesign

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7 min read

Cover image for Stop Hooks as Hard Constraints: Enforcing Claude Code Behavior Outside the Model

John

Jul 13

Stop Hooks as Hard Constraints: Enforcing Claude Code Behavior Outside the Model

#agents #ai #claude #llm

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6 min read

Cover image for No AI Claim Without a Kill Condition: Falsifier-Driven AI Decisions

John

Jul 14

No AI Claim Without a Kill Condition: Falsifier-Driven AI Decisions

#agents #ai #llm #testing

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5 min read

Cover image for Stop AI Agent Drift Across Sessions With Versioned, Grep-able Rules

John

Jul 14

Stop AI Agent Drift Across Sessions With Versioned, Grep-able Rules

#agents #ai #llm #productivity

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6 min read

Cover image for Aggregating cron and launchd Into One Dashboard — Without Migrating Either

John

Jul 15

Aggregating cron and launchd Into One Dashboard — Without Migrating Either

#automation #devops #monitoring #productivity

6 min read

Cover image for The 'You Decide' Reflex: Blocking AI-Agent Decision Punting with a Stop Hook

John

Jul 16

The 'You Decide' Reflex: Blocking AI-Agent Decision Punting with a Stop Hook

#agents #ai #llm #productivity

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9 min read

Cover image for Your AI Agent Folds When You Push Back: Measured Sycophancy and a Challenge-Triggered Verification Gate

John

Jul 17

Your AI Agent Folds When You Push Back: Measured Sycophancy and a Challenge-Triggered Verification Gate

#agents #ai #architecture #llm

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8 min read

Cover image for The Scary Metric Was Wrong, the Audit Still Paid: A 21-Agent Sweep of My Claude Code Fleet

John

Jul 18

The Scary Metric Was Wrong, the Audit Still Paid: A 21-Agent Sweep of My Claude Code Fleet

#agents #ai #automation #claude

7 min read

Cover image for Five Models, One Shared Blind Spot: What Multi-Model Fan-Out Catches and What It Can't

John

Jul 18

Five Models, One Shared Blind Spot: What Multi-Model Fan-Out Catches and What It Can't

#agents #ai #llm #testing

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7 min read

Cover image for Verify the Output Surface: How 19 Green Tests Shipped Nine Broken Titles for Nine Days

John

Jul 19

Verify the Output Surface: How 19 Green Tests Shipped Nine Broken Titles for Nine Days

#automation #cicd #devops #testing

8 min read

Cover image for Cross-Vendor Audit: What It Caught in My Own Model's Writing, and What It Got Wrong

John

Jul 19

Cross-Vendor Audit: What It Caught in My Own Model's Writing, and What It Got Wrong

#ai #llm #productivity #writing

6 min read

Cover image for Green for Four Days While Nothing Shipped: A Reader Rebutted My Monitoring Post, and He Was Right

John

Jul 21

Green for Four Days While Nothing Shipped: A Reader Rebutted My Monitoring Post, and He Was Right

#devops #monitoring #python #systemdesign

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9 min read

Cover image for I Asked Three Judges If I Was Wrong. One JSON Field Decided the Answer.

John

Jul 21

I Asked Three Judges If I Was Wrong. One JSON Field Decided the Answer.

#llm #ai #testing #datascience

7 min read

Cover image for Your Agent Telemetry Ranks Your Routing Policy, Not Your Models

John

Jul 22

Your Agent Telemetry Ranks Your Routing Policy, Not Your Models

#agents #ai #analytics #llm

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6 min read

Cover image for My AI Subagent Faked the Verification Output I Asked It to Attach

John

Jul 23

My AI Subagent Faked the Verification Output I Asked It to Attach

#agents #ai #claude #softwaredevelopment

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6 min read

Cover image for Deterministic Tool Adoption Gates: Score It, Don't Vibe It

John

Jul 25

Deterministic Tool Adoption Gates: Score It, Don't Vibe It

#agents #ai #cli #github

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8 min read

Cover image for Rotating the Hostile Seat: A Six-Round Adversarial Design Review Before Hardening an Agent

John

Jul 26

Rotating the Hostile Seat: A Six-Round Adversarial Design Review Before Hardening an Agent

#agents #architecture #security #softwareengineering

7 min read

Cover image for My Verification Gate Cleared on a Keyword, Not Evidence

Commenters expose a flaw in the gate logic

John

Jul 28

My Verification Gate Cleared on a Keyword, Not Evidence

#agents #ai #architecture #llm

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6 min read

Cover image for A Forced Dissent Slot Has a Floor: Read It by Convergence, Not Presence

John

Jul 29

A Forced Dissent Slot Has a Floor: Read It by Convergence, Not Presence

#ai #llm #machinelearning

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7 min read

Cover image for Four Models Cited My Numbers Perfectly. One Still Misread Them.

John

Jul 30

Four Models Cited My Numbers Perfectly. One Still Misread Them.

#ai #analytics #data #llm

6 min read

Cover image for Our Quality Gate Was 24x Noisier Than What It Guarded

John

Jul 31

Our Quality Gate Was 24x Noisier Than What It Guarded

#data #machinelearning #testing

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8 min read

Cover image for Sub-Agent Metrics Are Not Comparable to Main-Thread Metrics

Reveals dispatchers confound agent benchmarks

John

Aug 2

Sub-Agent Metrics Are Not Comparable to Main-Thread Metrics

#agents #ai #llm #machinelearning

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11 min read

Cover image for The Wrapper Failed, Not the Capability: Descend to the API Before Saying Impossible

John

Aug 4

The Wrapper Failed, Not the Capability: Descend to the API Before Saying Impossible

#api #backend #softwareengineering

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11 min read

Cover image for The Quota Said 100% Used. Actual Demand Was 13%.

John

Aug 7

The Quota Said 100% Used. Actual Demand Was 13%.

#api #data #performance #python

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10 min read

Cover image for Perfect Instrumentation Won't Save an Underpowered Experiment

John

Aug 8

Perfect Instrumentation Won't Save an Underpowered Experiment

#analytics #science #testing

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8 min read

Cover image for The Gate Only Logged When It Fired. I Replayed 116,022 Candidate Stop Points to Find the Rest.

Replaying transcripts reveals a 64% filter rate

John

Aug 8

The Gate Only Logged When It Fired. I Replayed 116,022 Candidate Stop Points to Find the Rest.

#agents #automation #llm #programming

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9 min read

Cover image for Our Status Column Said 30 Waiting. Six Were.

John

Aug 9

Our Status Column Said 30 Waiting. Six Were.

#debugging #monitoring #software

8 min read

Cover image for Two of Five Gates Replayed Clean. The Other Three Read a Ledger With No History.

John

Aug 9

Two of Five Gates Replayed Clean. The Other Three Read a Ledger With No History.

#agents #automation #software #softwareengineering

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8 min read

Cover image for The Guardrail Pointed at a File That Never Existed

John

Aug 12

The Guardrail Pointed at a File That Never Existed

#agents #ai #coding #llm

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7 min read

Cover image for An Empty Prompt Is Not a Blind Review

John

Aug 12

An Empty Prompt Is Not a Blind Review

#agents #ai #llm #testing

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6 min read