Posts
Posts and thoughts on technology, design, and building products.
2026
2026
February
February
OpenClaw Sent 500 Messages to My Wife
A real-world OpenClaw safety failure: my home automation agent sent 500 messages, got stuck in a loop, and ended up in Bloomberg.
Agentic Workflows That Actually Work
How to build production agentic workflows with retry logic, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints that survive real-world failure modes.
January
January
The Gap Between AI Demos and Production
The gap between AI demos and production: what happens when you deploy AI agents into incomplete data, hostile inputs, and users who don't read instructions.
Recurring Value: Beyond Clever Automation
Why the best AI automation compounds over time — building structured workflows with human checkpoints instead of one-off scripts that break.
2025
2025
December
December
Litigation Engineering: When AI Meets High Stakes
How litigation engineering changes the way you build AI pipelines — chain of custody, reproducibility, and audit trails for systems where outputs become evidence.
The Update That Crashed WordPress
Lessons from shipping a crash to millions of WordPress iOS users — why relentless testing, small increments, and graceful failure modes matter.
Building Systems That Survive Contact With Humans
Practical patterns for building reliable systems that handle incomplete inputs, confused users, and the failure modes that happen in production.
Silicon Bayou Rising
Why I founded Apptitude in post-Katrina New Orleans instead of Brooklyn — building a tech startup in a city that was rebuilding itself.
From Roadie to Developer: Loading Gear for Ringo
From loading trucks for Ringo Starr in Silicon Valley to building production AI systems — the path from celebrity roadie to software engineer.