Write Down Manual Decision Criteria Before Delegating to an AI Agent
A note on why you need to audit what operators actually look at before you start agentifying a workflow.
Posts
Small Admin Panels Are Where Audit Logs Get Left Behind
Notes on how losing track of who changed what and when in a small internal admin panel makes later investigations surprisingly painful.
What to Decide Before Letting AI Summarize Inquiries
A note on why you should define who reviews AI summaries and how to trace back to the original message before prioritizing convenience when summarizing inquiry emails or Slack threads with AI.
GitLab Duo Goes Free for All Users: Overview and Impact on Development Workflows
GitLab announced something developers cannot afford to miss. The AI assistance feature 'GitLab Duo', previously limited to paid plans (Ultimate and Premium) or requiring an additional add-on license, will now be provided by default to all GitLab users, including those on the free plan.
Documentation Isn't Ignored — It's Left Unupdated
A note on why procedures lose trust on the ground: not because they go unread, but because operational gaps never make it back into the docs.
Building a Notification Bot Turned Me Into Its Support Desk
A note on how small notification bots blur the lines around accuracy and responsibility as they become more useful.
Why CSV Import Edge Cases Escape Your Runbook
A note on how small divergences in CSV imports—column shifts, encoding issues, end-of-month exceptions—gradually drift outside the runbook.
Remotion Fundamentals: A Field Note on Using React Components for Video
A write-up on how the powerful React and TypeScript ecosystem can be applied directly to video production through Remotion, and where this approach shines.
Rethinking Nightly Batch Failure Alerts as an Operations Entry Point
A short operations note on treating nightly batch failure alerts as more than simple warnings—breaking them down into detection, diagnosis, retry decisions, and human handoff.
Starting This Blog
The first post from an engineer who maintains business systems and builds small automations: documenting what gets stuck in operations and keeping technical notes.