Building in the Arena of Applied AI

This publication documents real-world engineering at the frontier of applied artificial intelligence: autonomous agents, multi-agent supervision trees, evaluation harnesses, and production workflows.

"Applied AI is not prompt engineering. It is distributed systems engineering where the compute nodes are probabilistic."

Channels

Dispatches are organized by focus:

• ch/agents-workflows — Multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, failure recovery, process supervision.
• ch/evals-benchmarks — Real-world evaluation harnesses, hallucination detection, AST-level validation.
• ch/system-architecture — Container runtimes, telemetry, cron orchestration, edge inference.

About the Author

Cory Isakson is an engineer exploring applied intelligence, systems design, and autonomous developer workflows.