Notes on building things that work.
46% of enterprise AI proofs of concept get scrapped before production. The PoC has become a performance that proves AI can do something without ever proving it will. Build the smallest real system instead.
OpenClaw dominates OpenRouter's Claude 3.5 Sonnet token chart, but total demand hasn't grown; it has been displaced. The early-adopter wave may already be cresting.
AI builds software faster than ever, but the bugs scale with the velocity. The gremlins are already on board — the question is what happens when they hit the water.
AI agents work best when you meet them where they already are — the filesystem. Here's why otageLabs chose markdown files over a CMS, and what it means for how we build and publish.