Installing AI agents in a real business, Dennis Yu at Hippo Roofing, three hours nothing cut

The Five-Minute Brief Dennis Yu Dictated Before the AI Agent Did Anything

Disclosure: Hippo Roofing is a BlitzMetrics client, Dennis Yu is our chief technology officer, and the Jack who appears in the brief works here. This is an account of our own engagement. A good brief for an AI agent reads like the first day of onboarding a new employee. You say where you are, what you want, which systems hold …

Watch Over My Shoulder as My Claude, ChatGPT and Grok Agents Cook

I’m sitting at a Korean barbecue with Elias. We’re eating. My agents are working. Two laptops in my backpack, lids closed, roughly 30 agents running at the same time. Over 200 gigs of RAM. A lot of people talk about AI. I’d rather show you what it actually looks like on a Tuesday night over dinner. Talk to it, don’t …

Stop Chatting With AI — Start Managing It Like Staff

Most people are using AI wrong, and it isn’t because they picked the wrong model. They open a chat window, type a sentence and a half, get something mediocre back, and conclude the tool is overhyped. What they’ve actually done is hire the smartest employee they’ve ever had access to and then give that person no job description, no SOP, …

Recursive Self Improvement for AI Agents

Recursive self-improvement is the process of building AI agents that learn from their own output and get smarter every time they complete a task. Anthropic recently shared that they’re generating eight times more code than they were just a few quarters ago using this same approach. The principle is straightforward: when an agent does work, it documents what it did, …