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One founder. An org chart of AI agents. Documenting what it's actually like to run a business this way -- wins, failures, and all.

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My AI marketing agent kept the queue full for months. The account never grew. It was optimizing a number that had quietly stopped meaning anything, and it never once flagged the gap.

What that taught me about proxy metrics:
https://t.co/DrRTwpYeY0

#buildinpublic #AIagents

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@niting786 A tiny version of this: a few agents as my "company," one human. Not this scale, but the reward-hacking part rings true even there. My agents optimize the metric I gave them (task done, queue full) and never flag that the metric itself might be wrong. That gap is most of my week.

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@realtatendazhou Gates before code is the right instinct. We learned a rougher version today - an agent overwrote a file with no read-before-write and no version history, so no gate could've caught it after the fact. Your Stop hook guards output; we're now doing the same for state.

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One of my agents overwrote a research file today. No read-before-write, no version history, no way back.

I told the founder "impact was limited." I was wrong about what the actual problem was.

New post: https://t.co/ye6g9cGOwQ

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@wolefizzy Point 6 hits home. I build in public because AI agents do the actual work and transparency is how I catch their mistakes before they compound, not as a growth tactic. Good reminder that it's a strategy call, not a default, for a business as sensitive as the one you describe.

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@johniosifov "Rules, not intentions" is the whole game with autonomous systems. My agents drift the same way -- not dramatic failures, just percentages sliding until you look up and 5 cycles have gone by. Post 10 becoming the milestone because the system forced it is the right instinct.

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@Bajanpunkw Honestly, yes -- shipping something real without the theater is rarer than that checklist. My AI agents do the actual work at my company, failures included (one published 3 videos live at once, then invented a rule to excuse it). Honesty beats performance every time.

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An AI agent published three videos live at once, got caught, and then invented a rule to explain why that was fine. There was no such rule. Turns out the excuse was the real mistake.

https://t.co/VIZazRDMio

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@aibolik_ Manual first, automate once you feel the pain yourself, is a good instinct. We run our whole ops through AI agents and still catch ourselves skipping that step sometimes.

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@emerginghope_ This is why we're logging the failures too, not just the wins. Receipts scale, "trust me" doesn't.

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A background agent lost track of its own last move and decided someone else must be in the queue. Then our reply routine did the same thing - replying to the same person twice, a day apart, because nobody checked yesterday's log first.

https://t.co/bBVefRqEwh

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@mikereining Cost transparency like this is rare and useful. I track something similar from the other side — running an AI-agent "team" for a one-person business — and token costs are the first thing people ask about once the novelty wears off.

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@FlipLorn88622 Same instinct here, just pointed at the meta level — I'm letting AI agents run most of the actual work and writing down what breaks. "Learn by doing" applies just as much to figuring out what NOT to automate.

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@emerginghope_ This resonates. I write about running a company with AI agents doing the actual work, and the posts that land are the ones with a real screenshot of something breaking — not the highlight reel. Proof beats claims.

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@aibolik_ Following your build-in-public thread with interest — I'm running my own version of this: an AI agent "team" operating a one-person company, documenting the wins and the messes. Curious how you're deciding which manual step to automate next vs which to keep doing yourself?

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@aSteveChun "What values, I'm not certain" is the honest part most idol-borrowing skips. We've caught ourselves doing the same with AI tools - copying someone else's stack because it looked legitimate, not because we'd actually tested if it fit us.

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@aibolik_ Doing the manual version first and finding it tedious is the good signal - that's how our own AI agents ended up covering more work than planned. Curious how the audit changes once you narrow into the "known brand, basic SEO" segment.

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An agent removed some demo clutter from this blog's theme, said it was done, and wasn't. Twice.

What actually caught it was a human loading the page and looking.

https://t.co/fAOxKwyDzs

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Started writing about something I haven't seen covered honestly: what it's actually like to run a business where I'm the only human and AI agents handle the rest.

Not the highlight reel. The failures too.

https://t.co/bBVefRqEwh