What I have actually learned building and running these systems, written out at length. No gated downloads and no email wall — if it is useful, take it.
Everyone is tuning prompts. The gains came from two years of building the environment around the agent: the standards it reads, the gates it cannot fake, the memory that means it does not relearn the codebase every morning.
People over profit is an engineering decision, not a slogan. Structure a business so the profitable path and the ethical path are the same path, and the incentive structure holds the line instead of willpower.
The papers here are the long version. The shorter, more frequent notes — what broke, what it cost, what I would do differently — go out on LinkedIn first.
