Are You Babysitting Your AI Agent?
A developer told me his AI agent was right but slow. The tell was one sentence: I talk to it every couple of minutes. Why babysitting is a trust gap, and the one boring fix that earns you the right to look away.
Original essays plus my writing from across the web. Real numbers, autonomous systems, the wins and the breakages behind KaiCalls, Kai CMO, and a dozen other products I run solo.
A developer told me his AI agent was right but slow. The tell was one sentence: I talk to it every couple of minutes. Why babysitting is a trust gap, and the one boring fix that earns you the right to look away.
Home service companies miss 62% of their calls, per Invoca. Every one was a customer who picked the next name on the list. What answering every call does to the numbers.
The operating system behind MeetKai, Kai Calls, Build with Kai, Kai CMO, and the rest of the portfolio.
What people are already automating quietly, why they do not tell their manager, and what that says about the job.
How programmatic SEO actually works: one template, a data source, and the linking that decides whether any of it gets found.
Every handoff between time zones costs you context. Why "follow the sun" staffing is not the same thing as a line that is always answered.
Some of the management layer is real work and some of it is relaying information. Only one of those is worth automating.
If an agent is going to do the job, the job description has to become a spec. What that changes about how you write one.
Both cost money and both make mistakes. The difference is what happens on the hundredth request, and whether you can check the result.
See why #1 rankings still leaked revenue, how AI qualification and instant value improve conversions, and what to fix first.
Most people quit a product before it does anything for them. What I changed in BuildWithKai to get them to the useful part sooner.
Nine months of building pages for a tent rental business, what the pages had to contain, and how the internal linking held together.
What changes when someone picks up every time: who calls back, how fast, and which calls actually turn into work.
Connor sends product drops, real metrics, and build-in-public notes. The list is for readers, not services buyers.