The Human Web Is Becoming Agent Web
I'm joining Steel as founding growth lead. The web is shifting from human clicks to agent-run workflows. Steel aims to be the execution layer that makes agents reliable via traces + trust.
What Makes a Great Coding Agent
The best coding agents aren't about smarter models. They're about harness design: minimal core, extension hooks, radical transparency, real sandboxing, session forking, and headless RPC.
Designing CLI Tools for AI Agents
AI agents are now power users of your CLI tools. If you want them to succeed, you need structured output, deterministic exit codes, explicit sessions, and recovery primitives. Here's the complete checklist.
From Bash Script to AI-Native Go CLI in One Session
A single AI session turned `scribe.sh` into `scriby`: a Go CLI with deterministic output, runtime bootstrap, and cross-platform releases.
40% of Signups This Week Came From AI Recommendations
Checked onboarding responses. Exactly 40% of new users in the last seven days found steel.dev through AI tools. Not Google. Not ads. Users told us this during signup.
Making CLIs Agent-Friendly with Loops and Schemas
A CLI for my web automation agent, built through structured loops: a todo-backed backlog, schema validation, and a verification harness running 50 random web actions per cycle. Agent reliability isn't philosophy—it's loops and logs.
Meat Moat: Why Cheap Code Doesn't Kill Defensibility
AI makes shipping software cheaper, but it does not make institutions move faster or decisions easier to verify. Durable moats come from licenses, liability coverage, operational maturity, human-anchored verification, and social coordination around systems of record.
The Instantiation Era
AI one-shotted a fix for a failed Mistral.ai clone. The build phase collapsed from weeks to seconds.
When AI makes work and content near-free and outperforms us in IQ and creativity, the scarce edge for our kids will be judgement about what matters, the ability to verify and synthesize truth from noise, and the empathy and communication that earn trust and coordinate humans.
Joined Steel.dev, Semester Break, AI Model Experiments, Fishing Again, Agent Cheat Code
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