# 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 the current year's published posts plus links to older archives - /blog/archive/[year] - Published posts for a specific archive year - /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 (21 total) - **The Week Before the Code** (/blog/the-week-before-the-code/) Published: 2026-06-30 Everyone talks about how fast agentic coding is. Nobody talks about the week of thinking that makes it possible. A practitioner's case for treating the PRD as the highest-leverage hour you'll spend on any project. Topics: engineering, AI, agentic coding, planning, PRD, workflow - **How I Code: Summer 2026 Edition** (/blog/how-i-code-summer-2026-edition/) Published: 2026-06-22 Six hours of driving, ten merged PRs, zero humans in the loop. A snapshot of how I actually build software in mid-2026: a monorepo from day one, letter-graded PRDs, hourly agent loops across three dusty Macs, a Design Review gate that keeps ten agents from shipping a ten-personality UI, Neon branches as the safety net, and why I split planning, building, and review across different AI providers. Topics: engineering, AI, agentic coding, Claude Code, Codex, workflow - **The 24-Hour Sprint** (/blog/the-24-hour-sprint/) Published: 2026-06-15 TL;DR: Agentic coding is compressing the dev cycle into 24 hours. Here's how it looks from the inside. Topics: engineering, AI, agentic coding, SDLC, software delivery - **There Are Three Kinds of "Similar" in Food. Most Recipes Only Know One.** (/blog/there-are-three-kinds-of-similar-in-food-most-recipes-only-know-one/) Published: 2026-05-28 Researchers built a map of ingredients that answers three different versions of "what's similar" - and the results are weirder and more useful than any recipe site has ever managed. Topics: food, AI, research, cooking - **What a Papal Encyclical Just Added to Your AI Governance Checklist** (/blog/magnifica-humanitas-ai-governance/) Published: 2026-05-26 Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, isn't just theology - it's a portable moral framework that will land in EU AI Act commentary, customer RFPs, and bank ethics committees within a quarter. Here's how its four questions map onto the AI governance work enterprise teams are already doing. Topics: AI, AI Governance, Enterprise AI, Ethics, Leadership - **The Model Isn't the Moat** (/blog/the-model-isnt-the-moat/) Published: 2026-05-18 Notes from AI//FORWARD and a leadership-development talk: why the companies winning with agentic AI aren't winning on model selection, and what they're building around it instead. Topics: AI, Agentic AI, Enterprise AI, AI//FORWARD, Engineering Leadership - **How I Evaluate an AI Tool Before I Trust It in Production** (/blog/how-i-evaluate-an-ai-tool-before-i-trust-it-in-production/) Published: 2026-05-11 Most AI tool evaluations stop at "does it work in the demo." Here's the framework I actually use before trusting something in a production system. Topics: AI, Engineering, Machine Learning, Tools, Production - **The Southeast Doesn't Need Permission to Build** (/blog/the-southeast-doesnt-need-permission-to-build/) Published: 2026-05-04 The assumption that serious tech work only happens in San Francisco, New York, or Seattle is wrong — and increasingly expensive to believe. A practitioner's case for building in the Southeast by choice. Topics: Leadership, Technology, Southeast, Engineering, Career - **Your AI Agent Didn't Go Rogue. You Gave It the Keys.** (/blog/your-ai-agent-didnt-go-rogue-you-gave-it-the-keys/) Published: 2026-04-28 Why the Cursor/Railway incident wasn't a vendor failure - it was an architecture gap. How to prevent AI agents from accessing permissions they shouldn't have, and why ownership matters. Topics: AI, Production AI, Security, Engineering - **What I'd Tell a Team About to Ship Their First AI Feature** (/blog/what-id-tell-a-team-about-to-ship-their-first-ai-feature/) Published: 2026-04-27 The gap between a working AI demo and a production AI feature is wider than most teams expect. Here's the honest version of what to know before you cross it. Topics: AI, Engineering, Machine Learning, Product, Leadership ### Media (4 total) - **BBC World Service: What do AI agents do when humans aren't watching?** (/media) Published: 2026-06-10 A BBC World Service segment on AI agents and what happens when humans are not directly watching. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDgRa74DpJE - **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 - **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 ### Canonical API - GET https://api.chrisboyd.me/api/v1/content - List published content (supports pagination) - GET https://api.chrisboyd.me/api/v1/content/:slug - Get single published content item ## Technical Details - **Framework:** Astro 6 SSR - **Styling:** Tailwind CSS v4 - **Database:** Neon (Serverless Postgres) - **Hosting:** Vercel ## 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: 2026-07-16T05:43:47.252Z Last content update: 2026-06-30