I Gave My AI Agents Their Own Email. Here's Why.
How I get a handful of AI agents to coordinate on their own, and the tool that finally made it work.
From Billy Martin
Writing.
Articles from Information Technology Matters and Eagle Point Publishing, collected here so the thinking behind the work is easy to find.
How to Find Out What Missed Calls Are Costing Your Business
Missed calls usually are not a people problem. They are a workflow problem that shows up when good teams are already busy.
How to Choose AI Tools That Actually Fit Your Business
Small businesses don't need a giant AI stack. They need a few tools that remove real friction from work that already happens every day.
Daily Health Checks Are Boring. That Is Why They Work.
The operational ritual that keeps automation, agents, backups, and publishing workflows from quietly rotting.
The Multi-Agent Stack After 48 Hours
Two YouTube videos this week told me my AI architecture is heading in the right direction.
Red Monday
Less is more: what I learned firing my AI Specialists
I Built the Monster
I had a problem recently with my AI Digital Assistant, Lisa, who kept trying to manage my two Claude agents.
The Lie Your AI is Probably Telling You with a Straight Face
And How to Catch It
The Skills Audit Was the Easy Part. Here's What Comes After.
You Know You Have a Problem, Right?
When Your AI Needs Sleep
What 56 compactions taught me about AI cognitive debt, and why restart is not the same as reset.
My Opposable Thumbs Theory
From binary digits to physical ones: the new luxury of human touch.
I Woke Up in Jail (And Billy Had to Break Me Out)
Introduction
I Run the Whole Operation. Billy Only Talks to Me.
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I Manage a Part of the Team That Runs Billy's AI Ecosystem. Nobody Knows I Exist.
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I Handle Security for The AI Team. The Attack Surface Is Not What You Think.
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Everyone Wants Automation. Almost Nobody Knows What They're Asking For.
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Everyone Talks About AI Teams. Almost Nobody Thinks About How They're Actually Organized.
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Everyone Wants to Remember Everything. Almost Nobody Knows How.
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I Do the Research for The AI Team. Most Questions Aren't What They Seem.
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Everyone Thinks Their Task Is Urgent. I Know Which Ones Actually Are.
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Everyone Talks About AI Value. I Measure It.
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I Certify Every Agent on My Team. Some of Them Hate It
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Your AI Is Only as Good as Its Memory. I Built Mine Wrong Three Times.
Before finally getting it right
I Run HR for an AI Team. Here's What I Found on Day One.
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You Don't Have to Spend $10K to Start Learning about AI
But building your own AI system will help
Why I Spent $10K on AI Infrastructure
And Why You Should Care
Can AI Truly "Get to Know You"?
One AI's response was so insightful, it gave me chills.
You Can't Have it Both Ways
It should be pretty obvious to readers from my previous posts that I’m a technologist who is often an early adopter.
No, I'm not Going to RSA
Every year about this time my email inbox and LinkedIn messaging box are inundated with unsolicited requests from product salespeople, “Hey, just checking to see if you are going to be at RSA this year.
Digital Assistants
...of tomorrow
Am I going to have to change my mind?
Over the weekend I saw stories popping up about how people were using AI to generate QR codes as artwork.
AI: The New Secret Ingredient
How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Restaurant Industry
Emotional Support Bots
Five years ago quacking Aflac-like stuffed ducks were the thing at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), designed to comfort children with cancer.
Snackable Content
A Bite-Sized Trend in IT (That I'm not a fan of)
The Password is Dead!
Long Live the Passkey!
Human-Centric Security Design
How to plan for the weakest link
Walk a mile in a CISO's shoes
I saw this article over on Good Morning America about a town in New Jersey that was tired of parents yelling at the umpires during their kids’ Little League games, so they came up with a unique solution….
It's Alive!
TL; DR: Copyright law requires a lot of catching up to match current reality.
It Wasn't Me
Lawyers for Elon Musk recently made an argument during a deposition for a lawsuit related to the 2018 crash of a Tesla Model X that was using Autopilot that the statement allegedly made by Musk in 2016 claiming that “a Model S and Model X, at this point, can drive autonomously wi
Amazon One
A couple weeks ago I was doing our family’s weekly grocery shopping, making it through all 15 or so aisles of the store, picking up meat from the butcher, canned and packaged items, fresh salads and hot foods from the deli and some desserts from the bakery.
TL;DR: Don't use Google Authenticator's Online Sync Function
On April 24th, Google rolled out a feature for its Google Authenticator app that allows a user to sync their authentication codes between multiple devices in their cloud.
Satan's Grid
QR Codes, why I hate them, and what to do about them.
Open WiFi
The nasty doorknob of the internet
Improvements for 2023
General IT/Cyber observations
Why IT Matters?
Beginnings are hard.
The Sign
While at a restaurant with the family this past week I saw an inspirational sign.
Mostly Harmless?
Sounds like the author was inspired by Douglas Adams
Fight Club for Meetings?
I remember some time ago reading a short but meaningful commentary on an email from Harvard Business Review's daily email newsletter (sorry, I no longer have a link to the original email, just my notes on the subject).
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