The Human Web Is Becoming Agent Web
I'm joining Steel as founding growth lead. The web is shifting from human clicks to agent-run workflows. Steel aims to be the execution layer that makes agents reliable via traces + trust.
Optimizing Skills
I spent two weeks benchmarking agent skills on Steel. The surprising result wasn't that prompts matter. It was that variance is expensive, browsing makes it obvious, and the biggest unlock came from redesigning the CLI so the environment carried more of the load.
The Bubble and the Long Game
The printing press took 60 years to become economically sustainable. LLMs are on a similar diffusion path—broad adoption, shallow integration. The winners won't have model access—they'll have the complements: context, workflow, trust.
Claude Code with Multiple Accounts on One Machine
The clean way to use Claude Code with both your normal account and z.ai is one neutral config and two simple entry points.
The Post-Copyright Era of Software
Copyright does not disappear in the AI era, but it stops functioning as a meaningful scarcity mechanism for software. As reimplementation gets cheap, the real moats shift to trust, governance, provenance, maintenance, and operational legitimacy.
Explore once, script forever: turning web runs into scripts
Give the agent a Steel CLI and SKILL.md contract, force a snapshot/click/fill loop, then turn the successful run into a rerunnable bash script.
The Hidden Language of Search
There's a hidden layer between human questions and search results. AI tools translate messy prompts into precise queries - and you can see the evidence in Google Search Console.
What Makes a Great Coding Agent
The best coding agents aren't about smarter models. They're about harness design: minimal core, extension hooks, radical transparency, real sandboxing, session forking, and headless RPC.
Designing CLI Tools for AI Agents
AI agents are now power users of your CLI tools. If you want them to succeed, you need structured output, deterministic exit codes, explicit sessions, and recovery primitives. Here's the complete checklist.
From Bash Script to AI-Native Go CLI in One Session
A single AI session turned `scribe.sh` into `scriby`: a Go CLI with deterministic output, runtime bootstrap, and cross-platform releases.
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