I told the AI to escalate its own privileges. It refused.
Mid-task, my agent hit a permission it didn't have. I told it to grant itself the capability. It couldn't — and I've come round to thinking that's exactly right. Part 4 of a series.
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The day it destroyed production
I gave my AI agent auto-approve on infrastructure changes. It saved me hours — right up until it destroyed my production host. The lesson isn't 'stop automating.' It's about where you put the tripwires. Part 3 of a series.
Give it eyes
My AI agent kept fixing a bug that wasn't fixed. It wasn't a reasoning problem — it was looking at the wrong thing. Part 2 of a series on handing an agent the whole stack.
I handed an AI agent my whole stack
Two seasons ago I shut down a fantasy football app with 500+ users because the operational toil wasn't worth it. Last week I rebuilt it on the Oracle stack — and let an AI agent run everything. Part 1 of a series.
A new home, and a small experiment
Why I moved off Wix, what I built instead, and the AI experiment tucked inside the whole thing.