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What 'Loops to Graphs' Looks Like in Production: A Walkthrough of the Essay Everyone's Sharing
Carlos Perez's essay is the clearest map I've seen of where AI agent architecture is heading. Here's a walkthrough of it from inside a real production system — five agents on Mastra, seven days in — including the parts I got wrong along the way.
The Key to AI Adoption is Encoding Judgment
Most AI adoption stalls on a false choice: keep AI on a leash, checking every step, or let it run and hope. There's a third path — encoding your own judgment into the system so AI can run inside guardrails you built. Using a real example (surfacing partnership leads from LinkedIn), this post breaks down what it actually takes to turn instinct into a system.
AI Made Your Expertise Cheap. Now What?
Every service business is staring at AI knowing everything is changing and nothing is staying the same. That forces a bet: go premium, go volume, or shift to equipping. But all three bets share one dependency, and the same AI that made your expertise cheap is exactly how you feed it.
I Created a Coding Harness Without Realizing It
I sat down to learn Mastra with my Claude Code habits and my Cloudflare opinions in my back pocket. A few agents and a workflow later, I'd accidentally built a full coding harness. Here are the seven rules I refused to bend — and what each one looks like in running, open-source code.
The AI Interviewed a Woman Who Doesn't Exist. That Was the Point.
I spent a weekend building a sales executive who doesn't exist, handed her fifteen secrets, and let an AI try to pull them out. The fake expert was the point: it's the first time an interview had an answer key, so it could earn a score instead of a compliment. Here's what testing an AI honestly actually costs.
Learning in AI Is All About Exposure
I sat through a multi-hour AI training with 3,000 people and discovered less than 10% had ever tried a second tool. Comfortability keeps you stuck in the tool you started with. Exposure is how you get out, and here are two easy ways to choose it.
How Do You Test Output That Changes Every Time You Run It?
Ask an AI to build the same thing twice and you get two different programs, both working. So you can't test the code against one right answer. Here's how to test what it actually does instead, in five layers, with a Stripe webhook as the example.
It's the Harness, Not the Model
It's not the model, it's the harness. Here's the one I built for content, plus a 7-minute demo of it running.
Your Voice Won't Die From Using AI. It'll Die From Agreeing With It.
The real threat AI poses to your voice isn't reduced typing, it's the erosion of your taste every time you approve a suggestion instead of overruling it. Keep your voice upstream (the deciding) and confine AI downstream (the executing) by making four non-delegable calls before you generate a word.
You've installed a Claude Skill and it's not working. How to fix it.
You installed a Claude skill someone else published and it just sits there, never running. That isn't a broken skill, it's how skills load. Here's why it happens, how to tell, and two ways to fix it, including one that needs no editing at all.
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