I Do Run AI Agents Overnight. Here's What Actually Matters.
Boundaries, supervision, evidence, and why unattended execution is not the same thing as unbounded autonomy.
Petie Clark — Applied AI Systems
Applied AI systems that survive contact with the business.
Field notes on agent orchestration, evaluation, authority boundaries, enterprise integration, deployment, and production operations.
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How I think about governed systems
Why I Prefer One Clear Source of Truth
Why tools can multiply while authority, state, and accountability still need one dependable home.
Why I Write Down the Rollback Before the Change
A deployment is not ready merely because the forward path looks convincing.
The Case for a Smaller Blast Radius
Production systems become trustworthy through bounded change, not theatrical confidence.
What I Learned From Rebuilding Twice
Rebuilding a system sounds like repeating the build. It rarely is. The first version accumulated decisions in the order I encountered them. A rebuild asks me to reproduce the result after that order, and much of the reasoning behind it, has disappeared.
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Small Systems Make Ownership Obvious
Small systems have nowhere to hide their assumptions. That can feel limiting when I’m building one, but it’s a gift when I have to operate it later.
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