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What Brownfield Engineering Teaches You About Reliable AI Agents
What brownfield engineering teaches builders about reliable AI agents, context, reuse, sentinels, and behavior-driven evals at SQ Collective.

Michael Huang
May 35 min read


Building the Trust Layer for Autonomous Agents
Why autonomous AI agents need identity, trust, and credential boundaries, from a Stage session with loomal.ai at SQ Collective.

Michael Huang
May 35 min read


How to Design Products Better With Claude and Paper.design
How AI builders can design better products with Claude and Paper.design by clarifying direction before code at SQ Collective.

Michael Huang
May 36 min read


Building Agents from First Principles
Ivan from Manus.ai explains why reliable AI agents start with context before tools, using capability design, memory, and tool calling at SQ Collective.

Michael Huang
Mar 156 min read


Take-aways from 3 years of building AI Agents
Practical lessons from three years building AI agents, from flashy demos to agents that create real business value and revenue.

Michael Huang
Mar 105 min read


The Complexity Machine
Farhad's Co-work Friday talk on why enterprise complexity is a translation problem, not just a technical one, and how teams can make it visible.

Michael Huang
Mar 25 min read


Building AI Workflows That Non-Technical Staff Actually Use
Why staff ignored an AI Telegram bot, and what changed when the workflow was redesigned around clarity, critique loops, and real human edge cases.

Michael Huang
Feb 256 min read


Co-working Fri's First Demo-day
A candid recap of Co-working Friday's first Demo Day, from shipping an unfinished AI community tool to building confidence through public demos.

Michael Huang
Feb 156 min read


Chapter I: Reflection on hiring my first 24/7 AI worker
A founder reflection on turning Claude into a 24/7 AI coworker, from unused subscription to always-on product-building partner.

Michael Huang
Feb 94 min read


AI SpeedUp: From China to the Global Market
Notes from AI SpeedUp on how China AI companies scale globally, from production readiness to GTM, partnerships, and infrastructure.

Michael Huang
Feb 14 min read


How I Ship Without an Engineering Team
How one builder uses AI to collapse product and engineering loops, shipping production software without a traditional engineering team.

Michael Huang
Feb 16 min read


Trust is built by aligning expectations with reality
Why AI trust comes from matching expectations to reality, with lessons from Jeremy Soo on emotional AI and product credibility.

Michael Huang
Jan 245 min read


Pricing is a System, Not a Number
A practical pricing strategy recap for founders: move beyond competitor guesses and design pricing as a system for value capture.

Michael Huang
Jan 172 min read
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