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Operating Principles

4 posts tagged “Operating Principles”

Loop Engineering: What Running Fifty-Odd Agents Taught Me About the Verifier

I ran fifty-odd autonomous agents before I had a name for it. The hard part was never the work. It was the verifier, and finance solved it a century ago.

2026-06-24 · 10 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

AI Workflow

Telemetry-First Sub-Agent Dispatch Saved Me 18 Minutes on a Quota Cliff

Write a JSONL event before each sub-agent fires, and another after it completes. Six lines of Python turn a quota interrupt into a targeted retry of only what failed.

2026-05-27 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

AI Workflow

Why I Deleted the Anthropic SDK From My Workflow

If your orchestration lives inside Claude Code, sub-agent dispatch bills against the subscription you already pay for. The SDK needs a separate console relationship. I picked wrong, then corrected.

2026-05-27 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Operating Principles

Your Role Is Becoming a Skill (and the Org Chart Hasn't Caught Up)

PM, design, engineering, accounting were roles. Now they are skills any operator deploys as needed. The hiring market, the comp ladder, and the org chart have not priced this in yet.

2026-05-25 · 9 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA