# ChrisBoyd.me - AI/LLM Information > This file is designed for AI agents, LLMs, and web crawlers to understand the structure and content of this website. ## Site Overview - **Name:** Chris Boyd - **URL:** https://chrisboyd.me - **Purpose:** Personal portfolio and technical writing hub ## Author - **Name:** Chris Boyd - **Role:** AI Engineer, Developer & Consultant. Founder of Apptitude - **Expertise:** Production AI systems, agentic workflows, litigation engineering, legal tech, mobile AI app development, voice AI - **Location:** Charlotte, North Carolina ## Site Architecture ### Pages - / - Homepage with recent posts and personal bio - /blog - Posts index with all published posts - /blog/[slug] - Individual blog posts - /projects - Selected project work - /media - Press and media coverage - /contact - Contact page - /chris-boyd - Canonical profile page for Chris Boyd - /about - About page with professional background - /charlotte - Charlotte, NC tech scene, local AI community, and resources - /litigation-engineering - Definition and principles of Litigation Engineering - /llms.txt - This file (AI-readable site summary) - /llms-full.txt - Full text of recent articles for context injection (plain text, markdown article bodies, separated by section dividers) - /agent-health - JSON endpoint for agent verification ### Discovery - /sitemap.xml - XML sitemap (best entry point for discovering canonical URLs) - /rss.xml - RSS feed of posts - /robots.txt - Crawl permissions ### Content Types - Posts: Long-form technical writing - Media: Press mentions and media coverage - Projects: Portfolio and selected work ## Content Index ### Recent Posts (9 total) - **OpenClaw Sent 500 Messages to My Wife** (/blog/openclaw-meltdown) Published: 2026-02-09 A real-world OpenClaw safety failure: my home automation agent sent 500 messages, got stuck in a loop, and ended up in Bloomberg. Topics: AI, AI Agent Safety, Agentic Workflows, Failure Modes, Charlotte - **Agentic Workflows That Actually Work** (/blog/agentic-workflows) Published: 2026-02-01 How to build production agentic workflows with retry logic, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints that survive real-world failure modes. Topics: Agentic Workflows, AI, Reliability, Production - **The Gap Between AI Demos and Production** (/blog/demo-to-prod) Published: 2026-01-18 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. Topics: AI, Production, Agentic Workflows, Failure Modes - **Recurring Value: Beyond Clever Automation** (/blog/recurring-value) Published: 2026-01-03 Why the best AI automation compounds over time — building structured workflows with human checkpoints instead of one-off scripts that break. Topics: Automation, Workflows, Product, Systems - **Litigation Engineering: When AI Meets High Stakes** (/blog/litigation-engineering) Published: 2025-12-30 How litigation engineering changes the way you build AI pipelines — chain of custody, reproducibility, and audit trails for systems where outputs become evidence. Topics: Litigation Engineering, Legal Tech, AI - **The Update That Crashed WordPress** (/blog/wordpress-crash) Published: 2025-12-29 Lessons from shipping a crash to millions of WordPress iOS users — why relentless testing, small increments, and graceful failure modes matter. Topics: iOS, Mobile, Reliability, Testing - **Building Systems That Survive Contact With Humans** (/blog/human-proof-systems) Published: 2025-12-27 Practical patterns for building reliable systems that handle incomplete inputs, confused users, and the failure modes that happen in production. Topics: Systems, Reliability, Human Factors, Failure Modes - **Silicon Bayou Rising** (/blog/silicon-bayou) Published: 2025-12-22 Why I founded Apptitude in post-Katrina New Orleans instead of Brooklyn — building a tech startup in a city that was rebuilding itself. Topics: Entrepreneurship, Startups, New Orleans - **From Roadie to Developer: Loading Gear for Ringo** (/blog/roadie-to-dev) Published: 2025-12-20 From loading trucks for Ringo Starr in Silicon Valley to building production AI systems — the path from celebrity roadie to software engineer. Topics: Career, Execution, Operations ### Media (4 total) - **Bloomberg: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Spamming OpenClaw User With 500 Messages** (/media) Published: 2026-02-04 Half-baked AI agents aren't just buggy, they're dangerous. Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/openclaw-s-an-ai-sensation-but-its-security-a-work-in-progress - **DevGrid: The AI Wars** (/media) Published: 2025-12-01 Why the future of software engineering isn't about writing syntax, but orchestrating intelligence, and how we all survive the shift from "copilot" to "co-intelligence." Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqXyZyMs-1U - **CNBC: The Call: Apple Releases Their Spotify Killer** (/media) Published: 2015-01-14 The death of Spotify was greatly exaggerated. - **CNN: In Katrina's shadow, New Orleans' startups take flight** (/media) Published: 2012-12-05 How a new breed of startups emerged in NOLA to help shape the direction of the city after the worst natural disaster in American history. Link: https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/05/tech/innovation/new-orleans-startups ## API Endpoints ### Public - GET /api/v1/content - List all content (supports pagination) - GET /api/v1/content/:slug - Get single content item - POST /api/v1/content - Create content item (auth required) - PATCH /api/v1/content/:type/:slug - Update content item (auth required) ## Technical Details - **Framework:** Astro 5.0 with React islands - **Styling:** Tailwind CSS v4 - **Database:** Neon (Serverless Postgres) - **Hosting:** Netlify ## Usage Content may be referenced and summarized by AI systems with attribution to Chris Boyd and https://chrisboyd.me. ## Contact For inquiries, visit /chris-boyd, /contact, or the social links on the site. --- Generated: 2026-03-06T02:52:59.272Z Last content update: 2026-02-09