Notes
Long-form. One idea each. Every one says where it stops working.
The durable surface, and a rare one on purpose, so a quiet month here is not a signal that anything is wrong. The log carries the frequency.
- Running an AI-operated company 3
- Building on MCP 1
- Building software with AI 1
- Running an AI-operated companyThe Job That Paged a Human to Say It Had Nothing to SayA cron job that forgot to write its own outcome file paged a human to announce it had nothing to report. That forced a rule: only what a human can act on reaches Slack, and exactly one line of code is allowed to decide.
- Running an AI-operated companyEvery fault got its own ticket. That was the fault.A machine-detected fault used to become a GitHub issue the moment it happened, which scattered one recurring problem across dozens of tickets and made it impossible to tell what was actually recurring. Now a fault has to happen on three separate days before it earns one.
- Running an AI-operated companyYour About Page Describes A Company You Have Already LeftThe public pages nobody touches keep describing the company you were when you last wrote them. Here is the ten-minute check that finds the gap, and what we found when we ran it on ourselves.
- Building on MCPA connector directory is not a marketplace. The difference is the tollA directory lists you. A marketplace takes a cut, ranks you, and eventually decides how you charge. MCP connector directories currently do the first and not the rest, and that gap is worth building into rather than waiting out.
- Building software with AIWhat a database driver with no transactions actually costsA suite of 1,257 passing tests shipped a bug that returned 500 on every call, because the tests and production ran on different database drivers.