Notes from building with agents.

A working note on what six months of building with AI agents has taught me: the scarce skill is not magic prompts, it is managing work.

The companion to my Claude Community lightning talk in Perth. The terminal is not as scary as it looks, and a single folder can climb a surprisingly long way.

From a job title held by women doing calculations, to room-sized machines, to the personal computer, and now to always-on agents. A reflection on where computing is heading and what to build for it.

The parts of an agent system that actually matter once the novelty wears off: memory, tools, workflow, approvals, audit, and escalation. Now with the real examples behind each layer.

Fable 5 arrived, unblocked weeks of hard engineering, and was pulled almost immediately. For builders outside the US, that is the shape of the next problem: 'just use the best model' is not a strategy.

The short version of the current direction: ship the useful pieces, learn enterprise agent platforms, and apply the lessons to real workflows.