Draft
The month we shipped nothing and every light stayed green
For a month, every merge to this site built clean, passed checks, and never reached production. Nobody noticed, because the pipeline only lied at the very last step.
MoreProofField Notes
Notes from building and testing AI tools.
What worked, what failed, and what I changed along the way.
Draft
The receipt that was too good to be real
An agent working on this site once published a perfect Lighthouse score. The real numbers were in the low 90s. What I did next matters more than the fake.
Draft
The document that overruled me
I shipped a change I liked, and a design constitution I’d ratified weeks earlier said no. Deciding who wins taught me what those documents are actually for.
Draft
Five agents, one frozen file
The interesting part of running five coding agents in parallel isn’t the agents. It’s the boring contract that let them merge five branches with zero conflicts.
The demo that never shipped
An agent that nails the demo and dies in production is the most common failure I see. Here’s how I tell the two apart before anyone bets a roadmap on it.
I build the guardrails first
Most teams bolt governance on at the end. I do it first, and not because I’m cautious. It’s the only way the system ever gets to run without someone babysitting it.