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Trevin ChowWriting about AI, product, and the teams that ship.
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Your agent knows what you want. Who else is it working for?
Every invited me to write a Thesis Statement for After automation, a collection of 100 predictions about what work looks like as AI takes over more of today’s tasks. Karri Saarinen, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, and Alex Komoroske all have pieces in...
Building a Hermes profile for my 12 year old
I wanted my 12-year-old daughter to use AI for learning, creative projects, and the endless questions that come with being 12. I didn’t want to hand her the same general-purpose agent I use. I also didn’t want to just hand her Claude Code a...
I never tell my agents to use YAGNI
YAGNI as a principle isn’t wrong, but agents often take it way too literally… and it might be killing the soul of your products.
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10 Principles for Agent-Native CLIs
Last month I wrote 7 Principles for Agent-Friendly CLIs. Since then I’ve been deep in CLI work, watching agents use them, and seeing them break in interesting ways.
Mid-April, Cloudflare published The CLI for all of Cloudflare, describing...
7 Principles for Agent-Friendly CLIs
⭐️ Note: This original article has been superseded by a more updated version: 10 Principles for Agent Native CLIs.
I’ve been building a couple of CLIs as side projects recently, and I wanted them to be agent-first from the start. Not “an a...
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