Writing
How we think about running a company with people and AI agents, and about the questions growing companies can’t yet answer from their books. Written by Marilyn Howard.
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October 2026
Today my team lead reviewed the developers’ code. None of them are human.
How I run Totus with a team of AI agents: what a real week looks like, what goes wrong, and why a person still makes every decision.
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October 2026
You already know how to work with AI agents. It’s called management.
Where to start with AI agents if you don’t think in code: give them a clear job, the bigger picture and a way of working, just as you would a team.
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August 2026
It took a team: one human and many AI agents — and seven months of learning to work together.
The demo took days. The real system took seven months. What it takes to build something that works, not just something that looks right.
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July 2026
The Most Expensive Question in Business
Was that deal actually profitable? Why most growing companies can’t answer it from their books, and why for years only large companies could.
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July 2026
The ERP Is Dying. What Replaces It Won’t Be Built in a Weekend.
Why the systems that run a business are changing, and why a weekend demo is not the same as a system you can run your books on.
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