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operations with AI
What I run into at work. Specific, from practice, including what went wrong.
12 August 2026 · 4 min read
Seven dashboards, and only then did I see the leak
One day of building dashboards exposed four structural leaks in an operation nobody considered broken. What that says about measuring inside a scale-up.
Read on 29 July 2026 · 3 min readWhy AI pilots stall, and it's rarely the model
Most AI projects never reach production. Not because of the technology, but because of three organisational questions nobody answers up front.
Read on 15 July 2026 · 3 min readMy monitoring agent sent three weeks of noise
What I learned building an always-on agent that saw everything and meant nothing. On signal, thresholds, and why an agent has to remember what it already said.
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