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Phil RentierDigital

Building AI agents that survive production. 30 years in software, now writing about what works and what breaks.

Cook Your Own Software

Jun 5, 2026

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2 min read

Cook Your Own Software

Robin Sloan built an app for his family in 2020 — and why the AI era just handed that exact power to everyone who can write a sentence.

Phil RentierDigital
Phil RentierDigital
Your AI stopped pretending it's done.

May 29, 2026

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2 min read

Your AI stopped pretending it's done.

Anthropic's new model is the first that stops quietly shipping broken code and telling you it worked — the upgrade non-coders actually needed.

Phil RentierDigital
Phil RentierDigital
The Control Plane War

May 22, 2026

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2 min read

The Control Plane War

Two competing "Managed Agents" launches, one identical architecture — and the cage that quietly closes around your stack.

Phil RentierDigital
Phil RentierDigital
Free Is Ending

May 15, 2026

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2 min read

Free Is Ending

The silent subsidy that funded your AI flow is drying up — here's what shifts on your bill this week.

Phil RentierDigital
Phil RentierDigital
Your code isn't your moat anymore

May 9, 2026

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2 min read

Your code isn't your moat anymore

What 3 months of shipping with Claude Code taught me about defensibility. And the one moat AI literally cannot copy.

Phil RentierDigital
Phil RentierDigital
CLI: the unfair edge your 2026 stack forgot.

May 6, 2026

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2 min read

CLI: the unfair edge your 2026 stack forgot.

The hidden layer that lets AI agents close their own loop — and why your `scripts/` folder doesn’t count.

Phil RentierDigital
Phil RentierDigital

AI Agents

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This Week: Your AI Stack Has a Trust Problem

Apr 10, 2026

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3 min read

This Week: Your AI Stack Has a Trust Problem

7 articles in 8 days. 4 were about security. That was not the plan.

Phil RentierDigital
Phil RentierDigital

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