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 Restore Testing Teaches You About Every Other System
The backup report said the archives were valid. The restore diary began because valid archives weren't the claim I needed to prove.
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I Leave Capacity for the Weird Failure
Decision: routine workloads will not consume the space needed to preserve, copy, and compare a failed state. Capacity planning will include a diagnostic maneuver, not just normal demand and restart overhead.
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Why I Keep the Old Path Until the New One Proves Itself
Replacing a scheduled path is deceptively simple. The old job runs on a clock, the new worker reacts to a richer trigger, and both appear to perform the same task. It’s tempting to disable the old entry, enable the new one, and call the migration complete when the first run succeeds.
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The Difference Between a Hobby and a Responsibility
Decision: I’m going to let hobbies justify themselves by curiosity and learning. I’m going to judge responsibilities by whether I can make their total cost legible and accept the tradeoffs that cost creates.
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