Apr 28, 2026 - 4 minute read

OpenClaw vs NanoClaw vs Hermes Agent: Which One Should You Run?

If you’re comparing personal AI agents in 2026, these are the three most interesting open-source options right now: OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and Nous Research’s Hermes Agent. They overlap just enough to create confusion. All three can act across chat interfaces, tools, and real systems. But they are not optimized for the same thing, which means the “best” one depends entirely on what you want the agent to optimize for.

Apr 21, 2026 - 4 minute read

Specification is the Bottleneck Now

Coding agents write the code. Engineering agents run the pipeline. The implementation bit — the part we used to pay senior engineers six figures to do — is mostly solved. And yet the software still doesn’t build itself. Because knowing what to build, with what, how it should work, and how it should be used is its own discipline. Agents didn’t kill specification. They exposed it as the real bottleneck.

Mar 25, 2026 - 5 minute read

Your AI Agent Needs a Menu, Not a Mystery

Every AI agent in 2026 ships with the same onboarding: a blank text box. No indication of what it can do. No signal when it learns something new. Users type “hi,” get a generic response, and never come back. We solved this for BrightHire’s Slack Hiring Agent with a capabilities registry — a single module that tells the user what the agent can do, tells the LLM what it can do, and forces the developer to describe every new feature. One source of truth, three audiences, zero drift.

Mar 23, 2026 - 5 minute read

I A/B Test My Prompts Like a Scientist

Most teams evolve prompts by feel. Change something, eyeball the output, ship it if nobody screams. This is alchemy, not engineering. When your system is non-deterministic, a single successful run proves nothing. I built an eval harness that runs prompt versions head-to-head — 10 runs each, scored on behavior, measured on cost and latency. No vibes. No guessing. Just data that tells you exactly what improved, what regressed, and what it costs.