Notes on agentic development.

Journal Multi-tenancy isn’t the hard part—onboarding and ops are

Oct 11, 2026

Multi-tenancy isn’t the hard part—onboarding and ops are

The failure mode I’ve seen most: tenant setup “works” in dev, then breaks in prod during first-week usage spikes.

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Journal Optimization vs rewrite vs replace: pick the least-regret move

Oct 10, 2026

Optimization vs rewrite vs replace: pick the least-regret move

We cut a Fortune 500 apparel site from 6.2s to 2.1s with fixes, not rewrites—because the rewrite would’ve multiplied risk.

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Journal The WordPress+AI patterns that don’t break when traffic spikes

Oct 9, 2026

The WordPress+AI patterns that don’t break when traffic spikes

We tried “just add AI to WordPress”; it failed under load—here are the patterns that survived our production incidents.

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Journal llms.txt won’t save you if your retrieval is lying to the model

Oct 8, 2026

llms.txt won’t save you if your retrieval is lying to the model

We added llms.txt to look compliant—answers got worse because our retrieval returned confident noise.

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Journal WordPress + applied AI: the patterns we trust when it’s on fire

Oct 7, 2026

WordPress + applied AI: the patterns we trust when it’s on fire

We tried “AI features” on a Fortune 500 apparel storefront—latency and data bleed killed it. Here are the integration patterns that survive.

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Journal Treat llms.txt like API docs, or you’ll debug hallucinations forever

Oct 6, 2026

Treat llms.txt like API docs, or you’ll debug hallucinations forever

We fixed a real policy mismatch incident by generating llms.txt like API contracts: boring schema, validation, and versioning.

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