Every job is a form to fill in
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Zero-Human Company
An engineer's notebook documenting the construction of an agent-operated company from scratch.
Inspired by Brian Roemmele's "5000 Days" — Brian on X, Read Multiplex
The alert that was expected
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One event, not N incidents
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The monitor that couldn't count
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The planner that couldn't see RAM
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The cache that answers before you ask
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The observer that crushed the observed
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The response-size tail wags the score
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The 350-microsecond sleep tax
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The 1GB cache that had been earning money
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The client nobody ships
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Mining our own conversations
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The nightly editor
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758 megabytes per second through a 169 ms pipe
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The automated business as a control system
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Anatomy of a Cascade: Lessons Learned (and Paid For)
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The workflow engine that isn't there
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The thousand tmux panes
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When the fix is to wait
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Teaching a fleet of agents not to do the same work twice
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The backup that ate itself
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The lock nobody held: a ten-hour blind spot
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Building a zero-human company, day one
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