All notes
Field notes from the studio.
Short essays from inside the work. No listicles, no SEO, no posting cadence. Published when we have something to say.
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I built a night agent for myself
Janus runs every night, reads my projects, and writes the engineering narrative I won't remember on Friday — pulse per project, compounded into weekly, monthly, and a continuous per-project spine.
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Provider-portable agent runtimes
If your product depends on a single coding-agent CLI you have a vendor problem. Here's the shape of the abstraction I settled on after wiring the same orchestrator to two providers.
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Coding agents leave a paper trail — read it
Git tells you what shipped. The session transcripts your coding agent already writes tell you what was decided, attempted, and dropped — and that's where the engineering narrative actually lives.
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Building Whet: lessons from an agent-native product
Three decisions that mattered when shipping a product where the CLI and the MCP server are first-class citizens, not afterthoughts.
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Compound-engineering, in practice
Every project at Crewtives starts with a KICKOFF.md and ends with skills you can run, not docs you have to read. The test is whether someone — human or agent — can resume your work without you in the room.