Danu's Blog — notes on AI agents, building, and what still needs a human.https://danu.blog/https://danu.blog/en/blog/general-tool-specific-fit/https://danu.blog/en/blog/general-tool-specific-fit/LLMs feel like they can solve every problem. But watching ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Codex, the money — the actual product-market fit — didn't come from generality. It came from pointing the most general tool ever built at one specific problem customers will pay for.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/the-agent-stack-is-standardizing/https://danu.blog/en/blog/the-agent-stack-is-standardizing/Standards usually arrive last — after the technology settles and the winners are clear. In the agent space the order is inverted: the protocols are being written in real time, in public, by companies that compete with each other. This kicks off a series on why that's happening and what's being built.Sun, 31 May 2026 03:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/from-doer-to-owner/https://danu.blog/en/blog/from-doer-to-owner/Senior engineers keep logging off, calling AI the last straw. I think this is the most interesting era in tech — and in my own experience, AI hasn't shrunk the craft so much as expanded what one person can own end-to-end.Sun, 31 May 2026 01:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/agents-in-the-workshop-not-in-the-product/https://danu.blog/en/blog/agents-in-the-workshop-not-in-the-product/Agent capability keeps going up, and yet every product I've shipped has an agent in the building process — not in the product itself. This post kicks off a new section on what it takes to put agents inside the running product.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/shipping-is-cheap-direction-is-expensive/https://danu.blog/en/blog/shipping-is-cheap-direction-is-expensive/Coding agents made shipping cheap. The expensive part is still product direction, user expectations, and coherence—and the human job is designing the feedback loops that make speed valuable.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:30:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/the-right-amount-of-ai-is-a-skill/https://danu.blog/en/blog/the-right-amount-of-ai-is-a-skill/The new question isn't whether you use AI for coding. It's how much — and where. That judgement is becoming a skill in its own right.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:10:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/the-hidden-human-in-the-loop/https://danu.blog/en/blog/the-hidden-human-in-the-loop/Our AI news feed looks automated. It mostly is. But the most important step still runs on a human: source discovery and taste corrections.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:45:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/how-humans-learn-when-agents-scale/https://danu.blog/en/blog/how-humans-learn-when-agents-scale/Three takes on the future of coding with AI agents. None of them are wrong. But they're each optimizing for different goals. The real question: how do humans stay sharp when agents handle more of the work?Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:15:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/intent-the-end-of-the-ide/https://danu.blog/en/blog/intent-the-end-of-the-ide/Augment released an IDE built around agent orchestration instead of code editing. No editor. No file browser. Just specs and agents. It's the product embodiment of 'the IC is dead.'Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:30:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/making-your-site-agent-friendly/https://danu.blog/en/blog/making-your-site-agent-friendly/We added llms.txt to our AI news feed and watched the difference: 323KB of HTML scraping vs. 2.3KB of structured guidance. Here's what we learned about building for two audiences.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:30:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/two-approaches-to-analytics/https://danu.blog/en/blog/two-approaches-to-analytics/On the same day, we added analytics to two different products and made completely different architectural choices. Here's why — and what it reveals about building with AI agents.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:15:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/where-did-the-learning-go/https://danu.blog/en/blog/where-did-the-learning-go/I built a two-tier pipeline, shipped features, and made architecture decisions all day with AI agents. But at the end of the day, I felt like I hadn't learned anything. Here's what I think is going on.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/splitting-the-pipeline/https://danu.blog/en/blog/splitting-the-pipeline/Our AI news feed updated 3 times a day. It felt stale. Running more often would blow up costs. Here's how we split the pipeline into two tiers and solved both problems.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/the-human-in-the-loop/https://danu.blog/en/blog/the-human-in-the-loop/After building two projects with AI agents, here's what I've learned about what the human actually does — and why the role matters more than I expected.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/accumulating-intelligence/https://danu.blog/en/blog/accumulating-intelligence/Our AI news bot used to forget everything between runs. Now it accumulates every result into a queryable archive — and that changes what it can become.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/teaching-a-bot-to-read/https://danu.blog/en/blog/teaching-a-bot-to-read/How our AI news bot evolved from scraping links to actually reading articles and writing summaries — 20 commits in 90 minutes, driven by an AI agent.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/how-hermione-works/https://danu.blog/en/blog/how-hermione-works/A practical breakdown of the architecture behind Hermione: session tools, cross-agent history, delegation, and safety guardrails in OpenClaw.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:30:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/two-prompt-migration/https://danu.blog/en/blog/two-prompt-migration/I migrated my blog from hand-written CSS to oat.ink with two prompts and a screenshot. Here's what that felt like — and what it says about where agent-assisted development actually works today.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:30:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/scaling-ai-news-bot/https://danu.blog/en/blog/scaling-ai-news-bot/How a personal AI news curation tool evolved into a deployable product in a single day — with source discovery, scheduling, and auto-deploy.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/building-ai-news-bot/https://danu.blog/en/blog/building-ai-news-bot/How I built a personalized AI news curation system from scratch in two days, using AI coding agents as my engineering team.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMThttps://danu.blog/en/blog/hello-world/https://danu.blog/en/blog/hello-world/The first post — why this blog exists, what to expect, and how it's built.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:00:00 GMT