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.
Why I Prefer One Clear Source of Truth
An agent can receive instructions from almost anywhere. A chat message describes the task. A scheduler supplies parameters. A repository contains conventions. A wrapper adds defaults. A saved prompt contributes another set of rules. Each source is convenient in isolation.
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I Do Not Need Every Tool to Be Smart
The most useful place for intelligence in a data tool is usually a small box labeled “these two records might be the same.” Everything around that box can be ordinary comparison code.
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Why I Test From the Browser Backward
The browser is where all the private agreements in a web system become one public experience. A button carries the wrong label. A request leaves with the wrong shape. A response arrives correctly but never changes the screen. Each layer may look reasonable by itself, while the person using the pa...
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