The Contract

A working engineer's series on building real systems with AI agents without watching them quietly fall apart. It starts where most advice does not: not with better prompts or better tools, but with the contract you define before any code gets written. Seven phases, each producing an artifact the next one depends on, each gated by human approval. Built and broken against a real project, not read about in documentation. If you have handed an agent something complex and watched it drift, this is the series that explains why and what to do instead.