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 Quiet System Is Not Always Healthy
Low-traffic systems age in place. They can sit for weeks looking perfectly composed while credentials expire, permissions drift, indexes lose contact with their sources, and background workers retain assumptions nobody has exercised since the last upgrade.
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Hiring Your First Employee When You're a One-Person Consultancy
I've been running a tech consultancy solo for a while. Recently I started bringing on my first team member. It's been equal parts exciting and terrifying,
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What Most Church Management Software Gets Wrong
Churches run on free tools until the hidden costs catch up. Here's what actually matters in church management software.
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