Adam Kinney
25 years building platforms. The gap between strategy and reality never closes — it just moved to AI.
Gardening day
What am I building?
I build AI agents that do real work — not demos — systems that run every day. My main project is an always-on agent that handles scheduling, task management, morning briefings, and operational coordination across multiple products. It runs on a Mac Mini — Claude Code workspaces, scheduled tasks, Discord as the transport, three agents (Obi, Zoe, Franco) with distinct roles.
I write about what I learn along the way. Every article on this site comes from a real building session — a problem I hit, a pattern I discovered, or a decision I had to make. 45 technical fix-logs from earlier builds live in the AI All The Things archive. The bigger-picture thinking is here.
What do I write about?
Making AI agents actually work is harder than the demos suggest. The models are mostly fine — the integration is the problem. I write about that: Model Context Protocol and what it changes for tool use, enterprise adoption and the gap between "AI is clearly useful" and "AI is wired into how we ship," and what 25 years building platforms at Microsoft and Stripe teaches you about the layer that has to work before anything else can. The architectural patterns that made docs readable to humans are now the bottleneck for AI. That's the thread.