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Notes on AI product strategy, workflow design, governance, and building systems that ship.

Sam Meske blog post: Firecrawl Just Killed One of My Custom Pipeline Stages — and I'm Glad
Firecrawl Just Killed One of My Custom Pipeline Stages — and I'm Glad

Why Firecrawl's new source-level PII redaction and research index materially change how I would architect evidence-grounded healthcare pipelines.

Jun 25, 2026Healthcare AIFirecrawlPII redaction
Sam Meske blog post: A Structured Approach to Maintaining Your AI Agents Context Window
A Structured Approach to Maintaining Your AI Agents Context Window

Why context engineering becomes durable only when you treat knowledge as infrastructure: sourced, structured, versioned, audited, and loaded into the model on purpose.

Jun 16, 2026AI system designContext engineeringKnowledge base
Sam Meske blog post: Skills Don't Lie Dormant. Triggers Do.
Skills Don't Lie Dormant. Triggers Do.

Why AI workflows fail less from bad outputs than from bad activation design, and how precise triggers turn dormant skills into compounding systems.

Jun 15, 2026AI system designClaude skillsWorkflow automation
Sam Meske blog post: Your Agents Share a Brain Now. That's the Feature — and the Risk.
Your Agents Share a Brain Now. That's the Feature — and the Risk.

Shared agent memory is the biggest compounding capability in agents this year, and also a new propagation surface that changes how blast radius should be governed.

Jun 07, 2026AI agentsShared memoryGovernance
Sam Meske blog post: AI Agents Went From 12% to 66% Task Success in One Year. Here's What That Actually Means.
AI Agents Went From 12% to 66% Task Success in One Year. Here's What That Actually Means.

Why the jump in agent benchmark performance matters less than the operational infrastructure required to deploy that capability in production.

Jun 06, 2026AI agentsAI deploymentOperations
Sam Meske blog post: Most Organizations Treat AI Like a Faster Employee. That's Why Their Results Are Disappointing.
Most Organizations Treat AI Like a Faster Employee. That's Why Their Results Are Disappointing.

Why most AI rollouts stop at speed gains, and what learning infrastructure organizations need to turn adoption into compounding returns.

Jun 05, 2026AI system designAI adoptionLearning systems
Sam Meske blog post: Most AI Agents Are One Edge Case Away From a Client Disaster
Most AI Agents Are One Edge Case Away From a Client Disaster

Why agent deployments fail in production, and the seven-part governance layer that keeps autonomous systems from becoming client liabilities.

Jun 04, 2026AI agentsGovernanceAutomation
Sam Meske blog post: Your Claude Cowork Setup Is Making It Dumber
Your Claude Cowork Setup Is Making It Dumber

A practical guide to CLAUDE.md, scoped context, memory logs, and knowledge bases so Claude starts each session with real situational awareness.

May 28, 2026Claude CoworkAI workflowsContext
Sam Meske blog post: I Spent 90 Days Testing 185+ AI Skills. Here's What Actually Changed How I Work.
I Spent 90 Days Testing 185+ AI Skills. Here's What Actually Changed How I Work.

A breakdown of the workflows that actually moved the needle: outbound pipelines, GEO audits, parallel subagents, operational intelligence, memory systems, and disciplined execution.

May 25, 2026AI agentsAutomationOperations