Running an AI Agent Fleet Series' Articles

Cover image for One Leg Can Raise an Objection. It Can't Settle One.

John

Aug 13

One Leg Can Raise an Objection. It Can't Settle One.

#agents #ai #automation #llm

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Cover image for Route the Claim to Its Verifier - Legs Are Not Votes

John

Aug 13

Route the Claim to Its Verifier - Legs Are Not Votes

#agents #ai #llm

7 min read

Cover image for The Bug Was in the Brief, Upstream of Both Reviews

John

Aug 14

The Bug Was in the Brief, Upstream of Both Reviews

#agents #ai #llm #writing

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Cover image for The Key's Owner Wasn't the Spender

John

Aug 14

The Key's Owner Wasn't the Spender

#ai #agents #devops #debugging

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7 min read

Cover image for The Fix Was Committed. The Old Value Kept Running.

John

Aug 15

The Fix Was Committed. The Old Value Kept Running.

#cli #debugging #softwareengineering

5 min read

Cover image for The Gate Pinned a Model That No Longer Exists

John

Aug 15

The Gate Pinned a Model That No Longer Exists

#ai #llm #architecture #testing

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Cover image for Deprecation Doesn't Reach the Copies

John

Aug 16

Deprecation Doesn't Reach the Copies

#architecture #documentation #productivity

6 min read

Cover image for The Rule That Triggered on Its Own Advice

John

Aug 16

The Rule That Triggered on Its Own Advice

#ai #llm #debugging #architecture

6 min read

Cover image for Exit 0, Empty stdout: the Quota Died on stderr

John

Aug 18

Exit 0, Empty stdout: the Quota Died on stderr

#automation #cli #debugging

4 min read

Cover image for Your Report's Numbers Are Computed. Its Sentences Are Not.

John

Aug 19

Your Report's Numbers Are Computed. Its Sentences Are Not.

#code #python #software #softwareengineering

6 min read

Cover image for The Ablation Had Four Arms. None Matched What Shipped.

John

Aug 19

The Ablation Had Four Arms. None Matched What Shipped.

#debugging #software #softwareengineering

12 min read

Cover image for The Count Read in the Thousands. It Was Thirty-Seven Things, Recounted.

John

Aug 20

The Count Read in the Thousands. It Was Thirty-Seven Things, Recounted.

#agents #ai #automation #softwareengineering

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Cover image for Why My Correct Config Value Was Being Ignored

John

Aug 21

Why My Correct Config Value Was Being Ignored

#debugging #mcp #programming

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Cover image for The Proxy I Added to Measure Tokens Tripled Them

John

Aug 22

The Proxy I Added to Measure Tokens Tripled Them

#agents #ai #llm #tooling

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8 min read

Cover image for Same Bytes, 20% Fewer Tokens: Token Counts Are Model-Scoped

John

Aug 22

Same Bytes, 20% Fewer Tokens: Token Counts Are Model-Scoped

#agents #ai #api #llm

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6 min read

Cover image for When Two AI Reviewers Disagree, Read What They Both Rejected

John

Aug 29

When Two AI Reviewers Disagree, Read What They Both Rejected

#ai #llm #softwareengineering

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7 min read

Cover image for Your Tests Were Green Because the Gate Was Never Wired In

Verification agents found 19 defects in green code

John

Aug 29

Your Tests Were Green Because the Gate Was Never Wired In

#agents #debugging #softwareengineering #testing

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Cover image for The patch and the test were wrong in the same direction

John

Aug 30

The patch and the test were wrong in the same direction

#ai #debugging #softwaredevelopment #testing

8 min read

Cover image for I wrote a rollback rule and no way to read the number

John

Aug 31

I wrote a rollback rule and no way to read the number

#architecture #productivity #softwareengineering

5 min read

Cover image for Your Dead-Code Detector Found Six Orphan Constants. None of Them Were Dead.

John

Sep 3

Your Dead-Code Detector Found Six Orphan Constants. None of Them Were Dead.

#codequality #refactoring #softwareengineering

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Cover image for There Was No Valid Config. The API Had No Word for the Subject.

John

Sep 4

There Was No Valid Config. The API Had No Word for the Subject.

#api #programming #software

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Cover image for For Weeks I Logged a CLI as Flaky. The Bug Was `| tail -20`.

John

Sep 4

For Weeks I Logged a CLI as Flaky. The Bug Was `| tail -20`.

#bash #cli #debugging #softwareengineering

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Cover image for The gate couldn't read my JavaScript, so I removed the numbers from it

John

Sep 5

The gate couldn't read my JavaScript, so I removed the numbers from it

#javascript #programming #software

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8 min read

Cover image for The Dedicated OCR Engine Lost to the General-Purpose Model — 300 Slower

John

Sep 5

The Dedicated OCR Engine Lost to the General-Purpose Model — 300 Slower

#ai #llm #machinelearning #performance

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Cover image for Four MCP Tools Died the Same Day. One Unpinned SDK Dependency Killed Three.

John

Sep 6

Four MCP Tools Died the Same Day. One Unpinned SDK Dependency Killed Three.

#mcp #ai #debugging #devops

5 min read

Cover image for It Fit in Memory and Was Still Unusable — Do the Bandwidth Arithmetic First

John

Sep 6

It Fit in Memory and Was Still Unusable — Do the Bandwidth Arithmetic First

#hardware #llm #machinelearning #performance

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Cover image for The Confidence Interval Was [0, 0]. That Was Not Precision.

John

Sep 7

The Confidence Interval Was [0, 0]. That Was Not Precision.

#analytics #data #machinelearning

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Cover image for Five Fact-Check Gates and a Signature Passed a Page Whose Source URL Never Renders the Number

John

Sep 9

Five Fact-Check Gates and a Signature Passed a Page Whose Source URL Never Renders the Number

#testing #verification #architecture #ai

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Cover image for Five Automated Gates Passed Three PayPal and Stripe-vs-Square Fee Pages. One Human Reader Rejected All Three.

John

Sep 10

Five Automated Gates Passed Three PayPal and Stripe-vs-Square Fee Pages. One Human Reader Rejected All Three.

#ai #testing #seo #automation

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Cover image for Your Per-Edit Test Hook Is the Cost You Can't See

John

Sep 11

Your Per-Edit Test Hook Is the Cost You Can't See

#testing #automation #ai #devops

6 min read