Working With Machines

Notes and ramblings from an agentic practitioner.

The articles on this site are an experiment in applying the described method to different types of writing. My unfiltered voice appears in blockquotes.

Framework

• Quick start — Actionable techniques
• Method — The full framework (background)
• Agent patterns — Behavioral patterns in LLM agents and how to work with them
• Workflows — Reference material for specific types of work
• Skills — Downloadable Claude Code skills for specific workflows

Articles

• What’s changing — Agentic work and engineering roles
• The security gap in agentic tooling — Gaps in securing AI agents with tool access
• Creating skills — Recognizing process patterns and encoding them
• Collaboration in an agentic workplace — How agents change the way practitioners work together