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Reading paths, organized by question: AI Organization OS, AI HR, Agentic Engineering, and real products.

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May 9, 2026The 11 Failure Modes of AI Agent SystemsAI agent failure modes I've cataloged after eighteen months running multi-Agent systems in production. Eleven distinct ways agent systems fail — every one of them is a management problem I saw in my HR career first.Agentic Engineering
May 8, 202695% of People Are Stuck Optimizing Prompts. They Are Wrong.95% of companies are managing AI the way you manage software. Agents aren't tools — they're coworkers. The scarcest skill in the AI era isn't engineering. It's people who understand both organizations and Agents.Agentic Engineering
May 8, 2026How I Manage Agent Teams Like a CompanyLast quarter I fired three AI Agents. Here's how I manage Agent Teams like an HR director runs a company: org chart, performance reviews, firing policy.Agentic Engineering
March 25, 2026Wishing, PUA-ing, or Building Walls? Three Stages of Actually Using AII spent 18 months going from wishing AI would work to yelling at it to building systems where it cannot fail. Here is what I learned — and why 11,600 developers are still stuck at stage two.Agentic Engineering
March 8, 2026The First Day I Wrote My Thesis, I Didn't Write a Single WordBecause a thesis is a system, not a document. A 320-line CLAUDE.md constitution, 12-item SSOT data calibration, 4 Phase Gate quality checks, a 1,262-line assembly script, 61 references fully verified, advisor feedback ticketized. The full systems engineering breakdown of a Peking University MBA thesis.Agentic Engineering
February 21, 2026I Quit a Perfect Partnership to Build a One-Person AI CompanyAn 18-year organizational operator walks out of a healthy partnership to build a one-person AI company. The math that made it inevitable.Agentic Engineering