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 Docker Labels Reveal About Hidden Architecture
Docker labels look like annotations until something starts making decisions from them. A reverse proxy discovers routes. An update tool selects eligible containers. A backup job identifies volumes by a naming convention. A monitoring process groups workloads into a view. Each consumer may read a ...
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The Useful Difference Between Reachable and Ready
A listening port is a wonderfully low bar. It proves that something accepted responsibility for an address. In local model infrastructure, that can happen well before the system is capable of doing the job that brought a caller there.
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Fine-Tuning LLMs on Apple Silicon: Lessons from Production
Three crashes, two NaN catastrophes, and one breakthrough: fine-tuning a 33B model on Mac Studio to learn my coding patterns. Real configs, real mistakes, real lessons.
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