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Field notes from production.
Four years of production backends and, since early 2026, AI agents doing real operational work. What held, what broke, and what I would do differently. The long notes live here; the short ones go out on X.
The agents on my team cannot change anythingSince early 2026, AI agents in the daily operations of a regulated backend team: a standards corpus split into atomic files, twelve read-only skills, sixteen repositories, and the one rule that made any of it possible.
The next note is on its way. Shorter ones go out on X most days.
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