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.
A Service Is Not Done When It Starts
Getting a service to start is a satisfying milestone. The image pulls, the process binds, and the first request completes. It’s also the moment when a temporary experiment can quietly become a permanent obligation.
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Why HR System Integrations Are Still a Dumpster Fire in 2026
After a decade building integrations with ADP, Workday, Okta, and Entra ID, I've learned that SCIM is a guideline, not a spec. Here's what actually works.
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The Integration Engineer's Dilemma: Build vs. Buy in 2026
I spend most of my professional life connecting systems that were never designed to talk to each other. After doing this for years, I've landed on a framework
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