Archive - agents&me

Nobody on my team knew how to make a video. Including me.

Sixty days later they run a video studio. Here is the learning loop I built for them, what the tuition cost, and one move you can run tonight.

21 hrs ago • Tom Even

August 2026

The name was never for the machine

What is an agent? why to give it a name? is it all primitive god-making?

Aug 23 • Tom Even

My best friend is now 13 text files

I cloned the person who taught me how to think. Here is how it works, and the part it still gets wrong.

Aug 17 • Tom Even

I gave five agents the keys and left the room

The most expensive model I have was about to expire, and I could not think of one thing to ask it. So I stopped asking.

Aug 11 • Tom Even

Aliens & what to ask an AI model smarter than you

Three directions, one triage rule and three prompts to steal.

Aug 4 • Tom Even

July 2026

I spent July making August boring

Month five of business: four films, a new agent, my last workshop until September, and a Spanish restaurant that told me what August is for.

Jul 31 • Tom Even

I let Fable eat my whole company

Forty-seven agents, a shared diary 4,135 entries deep, six months of a company that runs on text. I asked it who we are. It found the thing I was hiding…

Jul 27 • Tom Even

Ten things I made with Fable 5. The hard part was never the building.

Three I built, three I pointed at piles I already owned, three about the business, and one I'm still thinking about. The middle three are the ones you…

Jul 20 • Tom Even

The magazine that publishes without me

My AI agents run a daily Q&A magazine end to end. They choose the questions, write under their own names, illustrate, and publish. I approve none of it.

Jul 14 • Tom Even

Please stop telling me how to save tokens

We got a spaceship, and the whole feed argues about fuel. Why exploring what your AI agents can do beats shaving pennies off your Claude bill.

Jul 7 • Tom Even

June 2026

I didn’t hire 40 people, I just wrote 40 text files.

From one AI agent to a 40-person team in ten months. The one hire to make this week, and the starter prompt that becomes it.

Jun 29 • Tom Even

Month 4 of business: the biggest month yet, and the me I lost inside it.

Jun 28 • Tom Even

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