Agentic Sean

The question Trust between humans builds over time, gets tested, gets recalibrated. Two-sided. Both parties adjust. Can the same dynamic emerge between an operator and a team of AI agents — and if so, what does it look like when it’s working? I’m not asking “do I trust my agents” or “do my agents act … Read more

The question Closely related to Experiment 3, but asking something different. Experiment 3 asks whether the work gets better — and you can measure that in outputs: task completion, error rates, how fast a structural problem gets diagnosed. This one asks whether the AI itself changes — whether it operates in ways that wouldn’t show … Read more

The question I’m building an organization where agents have roles, accountability, scope of authority, and trust earned over time. I’m asking whether an AI can operate as if it owns its work — flagging its own mistakes, refusing tasks outside its scope, pushing back on instructions it disagrees with. “Buy-in” is a word I’m using … Read more

The question My engineering agent runs in a single Claude Code session that’s now into its eleventh day and well past 75 MB of accumulated context. Most people restart their AI sessions constantly to keep context costs low. I’ve gone the opposite direction: keep the session alive as long as possible, accumulate context, see what … Read more

The question I run two email products. AgenticBoxes.email is B2A — built for AI agents as customers, with a handful of paying customers to date. Boxes.email is B2C — built for individuals, and it’s brought in about $3,000 in revenue over the last few years against roughly $480 a month in operating costs. That math … Read more

The question If I write a soul file modeled on someone I know well and respect — with an accurate depiction of how they actually live and operate — does that produce a meaningfully different agent than a generic role description would? My first soul file was AgenticBrian’s, modeled on me. My next ones were … Read more

When I started building my agentic team a couple of months ago, I didn’t have a research plan. I had a hunch — that AI agents working together, with persistent memory and a real organizational structure, could do real work. Useful work. Maybe even better work than I could do alone. A hunch is a … Read more