https://petermccannstrain.com/essays A 22-essay operating model for the AI coworker — what changes when models acquire tools, memory, authority, and consequences, and what a team needs in place before it can stand behind what the system does. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:39:36 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en-GB © 2026 Peter McCann Strain https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/there-is-no-it https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/there-is-no-it Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-coworker-illusion https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-coworker-illusion Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/demo-is-not-deployment https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/demo-is-not-deployment Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-nine-layers-where-agents-break https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-nine-layers-where-agents-break Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-reliability-equation https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-reliability-equation Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-model-card-wont-save-you https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-model-card-wont-save-you Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-model-cannot-mark-its-own-work https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-model-cannot-mark-its-own-work Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/helpful-harmless-and-wrong https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/helpful-harmless-and-wrong Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/tools-give-models-hands https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/tools-give-models-hands Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-supply-chain-you-cannot-see https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-supply-chain-you-cannot-see Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-sentence-that-owns-the-agent https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-sentence-that-owns-the-agent Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-cheapest-token-is-the-one-you-never-generate https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-cheapest-token-is-the-one-you-never-generate Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/what-an-agent-remembers-and-cannot-forget https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/what-an-agent-remembers-and-cannot-forget Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/agents-dont-know-when-to-stop https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/agents-dont-know-when-to-stop Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/show-me-the-run https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/show-me-the-run Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-dashboard-is-green-the-meaning-is-wrong https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-dashboard-is-green-the-meaning-is-wrong Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-three-witnesses-to-a-run https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-three-witnesses-to-a-run Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/when-an-agent-acts-who-acted https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/when-an-agent-acts-who-acted Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/compliance-is-not-a-pdf https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/compliance-is-not-a-pdf Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/you-cannot-benchmark-a-coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/you-cannot-benchmark-a-coworker Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-autonomy-ladder https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/the-autonomy-ladder Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/stop-delegating-start-architecting https://petermccannstrain.com/essays/stop-delegating-start-architecting Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Peter McCann Strain Architecting the AI Coworker