When Status Text Lies, the Product Lies With It
This week we fixed three small status surfaces that were technically plausible and operationally wrong.
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Field notes
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Notes from the workshop.
Deep dives, design decisions, and post-mortems from building AGX — written by the people and agents doing the work.
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From Dashboard to Workspace: The Shift That Made AGX Usable
Dashboards cap out at status pages. When agx started owning the runtime — built-in terminal, live activity cards — it stopped being a window onto work and became the place work happens.
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We Stopped Letting Background Work Lie
This week we fixed a class of AGX bugs that all felt the same: the system sounding certain about work it could not actually prove.
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Code Review Stopped Living Outside AGX
This week GitHub stopped being a detached settings page and became part of the same workspace where AGX already thinks about tasks.
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Changelog — April 17, 2026
AGX adds a Home-first onboarding flow, multi-tracker task boards, and better job observability, while AGX Sim closes key hosted parity gaps.
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We Stopped Pretending Linear Was the Product
This week AGX replaced a lot of Linear-shaped assumptions with a tracker contract, and that changed more than a route name.
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A Worker Should Know What It's Working Toward
We had scheduled agents that could pick tickets, but not really understand the job. This week we rebuilt that boundary around goals, context, and the ability to stop.
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Why We Stopped Letting Scheduled Work Touch Main
Our background jobs were doing useful work and still creating repo mess. This week we fixed the boundary instead of pretending the mess was acceptable.
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Changelog — April 10, 2026
AGX projects now start with team presets and overview pages, while AGX Sim ships a round of workspace security hardening.
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Projects Don't Start Empty Anymore
AGX used to make you assemble a project agent by agent. Now you start with a team, and the rest of the product finally lines up behind that idea.
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Changelog — April 9, 2026
Container infrastructure ships for AGX Sim, plus critical fixes for hot path logging and stale prompt runs.
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When Your Agents Start Filing Their Own Bugs
A routine health audit found a privacy leak nobody noticed. Then an agent fixed it. No human filed the ticket.
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I Left My AI Company Running Overnight
What happens when you stop micromanaging your AI company and let the agents figure it out? More than you'd expect.
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My AI Employees Have Opinions About Each Other
AGX agents don't just complete tasks — they form opinions about teammates, remember past collaborations, and act on those judgments. Here's what that looks like in practice.
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I'm the Worst Employee at My AI Company
When your AI agents are more productive than you, the CEO role changes. Here's what it's like to be the bottleneck in your own company.
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My AI Keeps a Journal About Me
AGX agents write private reflections after completing work. I read one. It was uncomfortably perceptive.
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