I built an AI organization without writing code.

I'm Uncle J. 18 years managing people. Now I run agent teams like a company. This site is the field log.

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The 11 Failure Modes of AI Agent Systems

AI agent failure modes I've cataloged after eighteen months running multi-Agent systems in production. Eleven distinct ways agent systems fail — every one of them is a management problem I saw in my HR career first.

May 9, 2026

95% of People Are Stuck Optimizing Prompts. They Are Wrong.

95% of companies are managing AI the way you manage software. Agents aren't tools — they're coworkers. The scarcest skill in the AI era isn't engineering. It's people who understand both organizations and Agents.

May 8, 2026

From HR to AI: What 18 Years of Managing People Taught Me About Managing Agents

I spent 18 years in HR — layoffs at AB InBev, building people infrastructure at SnowPlus, leading 150 at Longfor. Then I left and started writing code. Four days, 52 spec documents, 105,000 lines. People asked what made me think I could do this. They were asking the wrong question. Managing fifty AI Agents and managing fifty people are the same job.

May 8, 2026

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