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Four Infrastructure Pieces That Quietly Decide Whether Agent Products Scale
A handful of releases from the last week caught my eye — none of them the kind of thing that makes a headline, all of them aimed at the failure modes that decide whether agent products scale past the
Jun 16, 20267 min read1
Three Products That Treat Agents as Members of the Team, Not Bots
Three launches from the past week caught my attention, partly for the products themselves and more for what they sketch together. None of them is a category-defining release on its own. Read alongside
Jun 15, 20265 min read
Ten Failure Modes from a Year of Running an Agent Harness — Part 2
This is the second of two articles cataloging failure modes I've observed running an agent harness in production. The first five, in Part 1, shared a theme: the system certified success when no real w
Jun 11, 20268 min read
Ten Failure Modes from a Year of Running an Agent Harness — Part 1
Over the past year I've been building and deploying an agent harness — a system that orchestrates LLM agents to write, review, and ship real software for real clients. Like any production system, it h
Jun 8, 20268 min read
75% Is the Wrong Metric
This week, Sundar Pichai announced that 75% of all new code at Google is now AI-generated. Up from 50% last fall. Anthropic writes 70-90% of its code with Claude Code. AWS is publicly bragging that "w
Apr 24, 20264 min read
A Text File Beats an Intelligent Agent (And the Data Proves It)
Image by Susan Wilkinson Two competing approaches to giving AI coding agents up-to-date knowledge collided this week. Google released official "Agent Skills" for the Gemini API. Vercel published data
Apr 1, 20264 min read