06 WRITING — notes from the workshop
Blog.
Working notes on AI agents in production, travel tech, platform engineering, and the less glamorous parts of building companies. Opinions are mine; mistakes probably are too.
Building your software factory
How I assembled three specialized agents into a software factory that turns feature requests into shipped code.
Deploying cloud agents for your team
How to move your dev team to using cloud agents as teammates.
Leveraging the Language Understanding in Your AI Agent
Tool calling isn't the only way to give an agent capabilities. Two techniques — code generation and text-to-SQL — that lean on the LLM's language understanding instead.
What Is an AI Agent?
A plain-English explainer of the ReAct pattern — plan, act, observe — and why it turns a text-completion model into a semi-autonomous agent.
The Lies We Tell Ourselves in Engineering
Three convenient untruths engineering teams rely on for optimism: the estimate, the end-of-quarter ship, and the blank-slate quarter.