Field notes

Writing about agentic AI and how agencies actually run

Notes from building and running Opaeron: what works in production, what only works in a demo, and the operational habits worth keeping. Written by the people who use it every day.

Engineering

Building AI agents without a framework: what 30 production agents taught us

No LangGraph, no CrewAI. The propose-then-confirm safety pattern, a memory system that doesn't leak between accounts, and three real agents that stress-tested the decision.

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Engineering

Agentic AI frameworks: how to choose one for production work

LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, the OpenAI Agents SDK and the build-it-yourself option, compared on durable state, human-in-the-loop, observability and cost control.

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Explainer

What is agentic AI? A plain-English guide with real examples

The difference between a chatbot, a workflow and an agent, five agentic AI examples that run in production, and the failure modes that never make it into the demo.

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Playbook

How to write meeting minutes that actually produce action

A working structure, the five fields every action item needs, a template you can copy, and an honest read on where automation genuinely helps.

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