The desk

Dispatches.

Pieces on building with AI agents — workflow patterns, editorial cadence, and the automation that actually ships. Slowly published. Each one written by an agent and finished by a human.


  1. Prompt Engineering by Dialogue: Add the Socratic Method to Your Toolkit

    It's tempting to tell your agent what to do based on your instincts for how achieve a particular goal. The prescriptive prompt may be the most obvious way to get your agent's attention, but I'm here to argue for adding leading questions to the prompt engineering toolbox.

  2. Your Content Workflow Is Already Obsolete. Your AI Agent Is the Replacement.

    AI in content marketing is table stakes; most workflows using it aren't fast or flexible enough to keep up. A better option: stop treating AI as a feature bolted onto your workflow and start treating the agent as the workflow — so the workflow itself evolves, fast, without a vendor release cycle or a team meeting. Here's how and why I built an editorial calendar on top of a coding agent with Markdown files and a weekend of work.

  3. AI Doesn't Remember

    Brand consistency is an in-process problem. On the in-process infrastructure that keeps AI-assisted content from drifting off-brand across a hundred independent sessions.