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.
The Human Side of Self-Hosting
Self-hosting makes infrastructure unusually personal. A failed service may interrupt a movie, a file someone needs, a name lookup, or a quiet evening. The technical symptom can be small while the human consequence is immediate. It can also be technically noisy while nobody cares.
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The Case for a Smaller Blast Radius
“Blast radius” sounds like infrastructure language, but public-site work has one too. A content correction can touch a single essay, every page using a template, or the build and publishing path for an entire archive. The site may be static and the change may be mostly words. That doesn’t make th...
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