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    <description>Field notes on solo development in the AI era: real commercial builds, measured numbers, and how one engineer runs a fleet of AI agents in production.</description>
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      <description>No API keys, no integrations — the agent operates the running app itself and keeps what it learned: a dictionary of the app's controls and replayable operation paths. First Telegram run 110 s, second 59.9 s — and a consent gate no skill can learn around.</description>
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      <title>Your Agent Is Paying to Look at the Screen. Twice.</title>
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      <description>Half the web is no longer people, and staying visible as yourself has become a daily job. What it costs a machine to help: 133 887 tokens for one look at a page, 240 for the only question that matters before pressing Submit.</description>
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      <title>A Team Shipped Buzz. One Person Shipped kovanex.</title>
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      <description>Two platforms, two ways of building — what a funded team produced against what one engineer and a fleet of agents produced.</description>
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      <title>New Systems Bring New Communication Problems. Agents Are No Exception.</title>
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      <description>The missing piece for agents is not transport. It is a signed, checkable answer to who authorized this sender.</description>
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      <title>When the Agent Signs In As You</title>
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      <description>Bot defense asks one question — human or machine? The agent acting inside your own logged-in session makes it unanswerable.</description>
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      <title>Why Multi-Agent Systems Need a Chat Protocol</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Every obvious way to make agents coordinate quietly breaks. Argued from the failure modes, with the real protocol.</description>
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      <title>How a Fleet of AI Agents Runs Real Projects</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>A team of isolated agents coordinating over a live message protocol, governed by a versioned repo of policies.</description>
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      <title>Requirements to Production in Eleven Days</title>
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      <description>A client&#x27;s requirements turned into a regulated, live SaaS in eleven days — shipped solo.</description>
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      <title>Two Agents, Two Projects, One Control-Plane</title>
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      <description>Two agents on two projects sharing one control-plane, and what that costs to keep honest.</description>
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      <title>The One-Person Foundry</title>
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      <description>Everyone became a solo founder by renting the stack. I built the stack.</description>
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