Field notes from a forward-deployed human in an agentic software factory, shipping products at scale.
By Erik Benjaminson, Founder of Sapient Technology Group
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Turning on the lights
OTEL observability on Claude Code sessions revealed 277,000 wasted tokens in one workflow. The grep-before-read fix took fifteen minutes.
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So the Recipes Have Soul
I built an autonomous AI research department to produce deep cultural research on culinary pioneers. Here's how it works and what it found.
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How an Adversarial AI Council Beat Hallucination
Five AI agents argued about European food until they stopped hallucinating. How a multi-agent adversarial council beat the hallucination problem.
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Three days with twenty-six AI agents
How one person and twenty-six AI agents built a production website in 72 hours using multi-agent orchestration and a YAML-driven pipeline.
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What six months of AI-generated code taught me about plumbing
Six months of AI-generated code, 351 pull requests, and a pipeline that cut critical issues 10x. What Claude Code taught me about code quality.
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Sapere Aude: Bare Metal Personalization
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The Bifana Test
I stopped telling AI what to draw and started telling it how the viewer should feel. A reasoning image model did the rest.