https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/ AI Engineering: agent orchestration, fleet operations, and the tooling behind this site. en-us https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/automations-that-run-without-me.html https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/automations-that-run-without-me.html Fourteen automations that run on a schedule without supervision, the eight rules that keep them safe, and the four ways they broke. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:30:00 GMT https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/the-mechanical-check-test.html https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/the-mechanical-check-test.html One question decides whether an agent may act alone: can a cheap mechanical check prove the result? Here is how that test is wired into a running daemon. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/review-what-actually-runs.html https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/review-what-actually-runs.html An agent that reviews code every night needs to know which code matters. Rank by what the machine actually executes, times how long since anyone looked. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/security-check-with-no-model.html https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/security-check-with-no-model.html Six checks, once a month, no model calls, read-only, and never print the secret. The most reliable job in my fleet is the one with no intelligence in it. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/ship-the-read-only-report-first.html https://nicholasg3.github.io/ai-engineering/posts/ship-the-read-only-report-first.html How to automate something you care about — your contacts, your obligations — starting with a job that cannot write anything, and adding write access one proven phase at a time. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT