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Wait, What Were We Trying to Do?
A rabbit hole, a design review, and where Agent Academy is heading.
2 hrs ago
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John Mann
Who Is Doing What?
Keeping your AI agents in sync
Oct 17
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John Mann
Who’s Going to Train the Next Generation of Senior Engineers?
AI is making junior developers more productive. It may also be quietly deleting the experiences that make them good.
Oct 9
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John Mann
Follow One Feature Through Your Company
Before you reorganize the team or buy another tool, find out where the work actually gets stuck
Oct 4
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John Mann
September 2026
Ordinary Things, Done Unusually Well
Hospitality is a leadership skill.
Sep 30
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John Mann
The Most Expensive Word in AI Is Yes
Agents make it easy to start more work. They do nothing to make my week bigger.
Sep 27
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John Mann
The Village Was Never About the Agents
I built an AI organization to make delegation understandable. The real value was giving one agent responsibility for returning verified outcomes.
Sep 22
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John Mann
I Wanted a Coding Partner. I Built a Village.
What Agent Village taught me about trust, imagination, and building with AI
Sep 19
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John Mann
Reducing Opportunity
What if AI’s biggest social benefit is making bad actors easier to detect?
Sep 12
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John Mann
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I Gave an AI Agent a Budget, a Business, and a Curfew
Special edition: the skill library and the autonomous lab it built — Agent Skills and Astra Lab, both live this week
Sep 6
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John Mann
The 40% Club
Gartner says most agentic AI projects will fail by 2027. I've seen this movie before, and I know exactly who's holding the remote.
Sep 5
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John Mann
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The outage that stop the world
AI is still a computer and has some issues too.
Sep 4
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John Mann
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