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 Chores Teach Me About Queues
Household chores are a brutally honest queueing system. Work arrives from ordinary life, the machines have fixed capacity, and completed-looking steps have a habit of producing another pile somewhere else.
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A Useful Dashboard Starts With Missing Data
The most informative mark on an operational dashboard is often an empty space, provided the dashboard can explain why it’s empty.
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