ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · 6 min read
AI Agents Need Artifacts, Not Activity
I got tired of AI agents sounding busy and leaving nothing behind. Here's the boring rule I now use before calling agent work done.
May 26, 2026
Ephemeral Sharing encrypts files and text in your browser, stores file contents as ciphertext in R2, and supports expiring links with best-effort download limits.
AI agents need structure from config files, but they should not need raw secrets in their context. ReadSafe is my pre-alpha attempt to fix that locally.
I got tired of agents handing me giant Markdown blobs I would never read properly. So I built MaraDocs to turn agent reports into durable HTML artifacts.
AI agents aren't magic. They're a loop. Here's the full picture — with a live dashboard you control.
Spoiler: you probably don't need to. Here's what actually happens after you integrate an LLM API, from whispering to a dragon to raising one from an egg.