Being, Humanity & FutureSeries
When My Best Friend 'Became' CEO — Part 1: The Announcement
2026-06-218 min read
The announcement was calm. That was the strange part.
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Being, Humanity & FutureSeriesWhen My Best Friend 'Became' CEO — Part 2: The Agreeable CEO
2026-06-21·11 min read
Everyone agreed before anyone understood.
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Being, Humanity & FutureSeriesWhen My Best Friend 'Became' CEO — Part 3: ALEX and the Whisperers
2026-06-21·10 min read
In the new office politics, the prompt became the whisper.
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AI / Agentic SystemsThe Real Cost of Default Configs: How My AI Bot Burned $700/month on Tokens
2026-03-17·5 min read
A practical guide to optimizing LLM token usage in messaging bots. How default context windows, missing history limits, and compaction loops silently drain your API budget.
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Review Queue and Approval Channels
2026-03-10·4 min read
What a review queue is; priority; Slack, email, dashboard channels; where the user clicks approve/reject.
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Identity and Audit Trail
2026-03-10·4 min read
Who reviewed, when; log for compliance and debug; permissions (who may review which type).
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Why We Need Humans in the Loop
2026-03-09·5 min read
When to let the agent run autonomously and when to require human review; cost of wrong action vs cost of review.
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What Is Human-in-the-Loop?
2026-03-09·5 min read
Definition of HITL; approval gate as the stop point; pending to approve/reject to continue or modify.
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States and State Machine for HITL
2026-03-09·5 min read
States: pending_review, approved, rejected, timeout; simple state machine; reviewed_by, reviewed_at.
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AI / Agentic Systems5 things I learned building AI agents
2026-03-09·3 min read
Reflection: five practical lessons from building and operating AI agents — HITL, cost of wrong action, state, feedback, ship the loop.
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