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 Better Way to End a Work Session
A work session usually ends before the work does. The clock wins, attention gets thin, or the next obligation arrives. That’s normal. What causes trouble is leaving an unfinished system in a state that only makes sense to the person who has been staring at it for three hours.
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A Small Network Is Still a Production Network
A small network can be rebuilt badly with remarkable speed. There may be one router, one switch, a few access points, and a short list of local services. That looks simple enough to recreate from memory. Then the replacement comes up with a different address pool, half the names point at old dest...
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