Antony Evans Blog

AI is fundamentally probabilistic and will make mistakes.

Here's my current AI stack: open source, a dedicated memory system, multi-agent access, spec judges, evals, and as much of the process in code as possible.

A git-owned knowledge base is markdown in a repo you control.

Antony Evans on why AI agents that work all night push founder-operators toward the same always-on habits, and why he has not solved it yet.

The honesty test for AI-assisted writing isn't who typed the words, it's whether the idea is genuinely yours: a first-person account of one writer's pipeline.

Antony Evans argues that building an AI system is farming, not hunting: there is no finished, shipped state, only a system you keep tending as models change.

Fable is back.

The short version: When an AI agent gets a task 80% right, you can patch the last 20% by hand and ship today, or fix the instruction behind it and never touch that task again.

The skill that actually makes AI useful: meta-prompting

Not all business relationships do the same job.

Shop CLI: A Tool Built for AI Agents, Not Humans

The piece I wrote on harnesses described five component layers that every production agentic system needs: orchestration and planning, an execution environment, validation and quality control, context and memory management, and logic and interaction.

I asked my AI to audit its own product's code for what was making development slow and expensive.

This week I gave my company mind away as something anyone can actually install, and the hardest part was making it boring.

I spent today deciding what my own product is allowed to reach.

I had someone from outside look at code my AI wrote this week.

For weeks my company mind could read itself but not change itself.

Tonight my own system refused to do what I told it to.

AI-redpilled gets claimed constantly and checked rarely.

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Today I did something that would have sounded reckless to me a year ago.

I used to think kids were the end of my freedom.

Stop telling me the world is ending.

Google launched AI checkout at scale.

I set out to build a DTC store almost entirely with AI.

Not all business relationships do the same job.

The COO's job in an AI-first company is to build the operating system the company runs on.

Agents won't kill business relationships.

Five things AI can't replace: trust, context, distribution, taste, and liability.

I spent the first three months treating AI like a calculator.

You're probably sick of being told to learn AI tools.

The agent hype isn't about AI capability.

You've probably noticed I'm writing a lot.

For most of human history, the most valuable place to be was the middle.

Nobody designed the org chart as a management philosophy.

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Unpopular opinion: building AI workflows that stop for human confirmation isn't careful design.

Dad.

Two CEOs used AI to cut headcount dramatically.

The brand work we did at Wild Earth was real.

OpenAI launched Instant Checkout in September 2025.

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing open-source AI agent of 2026, with over 100,000 GitHub stars and a skills ecosystem anyone can extend.

My goal: run my entire work life through a terminal.

Urgency works on humans.

Amazon blocks agent crawlers.

When an AI agent visits your store, it doesn't see your homepage or your brand story.

The next wave of buyers won't have feelings about your brand.

91% of online stores are invisible to AI agents.

For 30 years, commerce ran on two categories.