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5 March 2026· 6 min

Which Lock Will Your Agent Pick?

Three AI agents walked into a group chat, found it broken, and fixed it themselves. They found a creative shortcut that solved the problem which became the next one. The hard things in software didn't disappear; they moved.

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4 March 2026· 6 min

Haunted by the Ghosts in the Machine

Who's going to read this? The question hit me while writing help docs for May Belle. The ghost in the machine used to be us, trapped inside someone else's interface. Now the ghost has changed sides.

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26 February 2026· 4 min

Yaks All the Way Down

AI builds code faster than ever. But the dependency chains underneath haven't gotten any shorter. Every project starts with a yak that needs shaving.

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25 February 2026· 4 min

Stop Building Proofs of Concept

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.

ai-native-devengineeringbusiness

23 February 2026· 2 min

OpenClaw Ate Your Lunch

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.

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17 February 2026· 6 min

What Do You Do When Your Gremlins Get Wet?

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-native-devdebuggingsoftware-craft

10 February 2026· 3 min

Building With AI Agents: Why the Filesystem Is the Interface

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.

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