A Professional Gluer

Writing about AI, automation, and building things.

I Built Four AI Orchestrators. Claude Code Obsoletes Them.

Apr 22, 2026 // 6 min read

Four AI orchestrators in four weeks, each with less scaffolding than the last. The agent underneath got good enough that the harness became dead weight.

Building Build The Thing, Part 2: Making It Real

Mar 23, 2026 // 9 min read

Seven days of building BTT — from a hardcoded 3-agent pipeline to a YAML workflow engine, the prompt system that eliminated template conditionals, and the pivot that made it all work.

Building Build The Thing, Part 1: The Thesis

Mar 22, 2026 // 5 min read

An experiment with AI-generated code that worked unit-by-unit but failed as a system, and what that revealed about the structure AI needs to produce coherent output.