Second Half Software — a rising sun
Second Half
Software LLC
A lifelong love for engineering.

Blog

  1. 14 Agents, 2 Robots and 1 Human

    I’m the only human at Second Half Software, and this week I added two robots to my team of fourteen AI agents. Why they needed hands, a PIN pad and ears, what I found when I looked for one to buy, and how I built one for each test phone, with the parts list and the wiring.

  2. Following the letter, missing the spirit

    Claude follows the letter of an instruction and can miss its spirit. A week of examples from a team of fourteen AI agents, what they said I could do better, and why writing down your reasons beats writing more rules, in a recommendation of two files and a pointer.

  3. The first few agent retrospectives

    Three days after I introduced my team of fourteen AI agents, we held our second retrospective. This is what the first two taught us: three things that went right, three to improve, what we are doing about them, and what the lead agent makes of delegating.

  4. From a chat window to a team of agents: notes from building an app

    I’ve changed how I work with an AI model about five times while building one app: a chat in the browser, copy and paste with the desktop app, an assistant in the terminal, several agents at once, and now a team of them. This is what each stage was like and what went wrong in it, in the hope that it helps other developers on their own adventures.