Q: What is this?
A: A field log. A living document. A record of how automation actually happens—messy, fast, and occasionally on fire.

Q: So a newsletter? An AI one?
A: The Path of Automation-a newsletter on AI, AI agents, and the people who interact with them. A holistic view, one might say.

Q: But why you? Why now?
A: I’m just a couple steps ahead. I don’t have all the answers, but I know some things that work, some that don’t, and some I’m still testing. I’ll never have all the answers-but some light is better than no light.

AI is rife with uncertainty, and some operators are still charging absurd amounts for what amounts to clever prompting. Here, I’ll operate under one philosophy: all raw insights, learnings, and revelations will be freely given. You’re free to take them, remix them, and make something better.

Only my own derivations of these insights may ever be paid products. (I’ll freely share how to do X, then I’ll go do X myself-and maybe profit on the result.)

Go take the ideas. Use them. Break them. Build from them.
Start a startup or two if you want. I’m not going to-but you can.

Q: What’s with this weird format?
A: The newsletter’s called The Path of Automation. We’re walking it together—me with the torch, you with the map.

Q: So, what have you been up to recently?
A: One of my first initiatives when we created the AI Ops team at Relevance AI was to build the Grand Library of Agents.

Today, enough people believed in it for it to take its first steps-agents are finally being shelved.

Q: But what is it? A regular library?
A: In a way, yes-but more. It’s a place to store every agent (or even just a prompt) worth keeping, so your colleagues can use it too. It holds documentation, usage guides, and performance reports, so no one has to reinvent what already works.

No silos in the age of AI. If someone built something useful before you, why should that knowledge die in a Slack thread?

It can be as simple as a spreadsheet of links, or as complex as a multi-agent librarian that asks what you need and dispatches an automaton to fetch it.

Q: Ah, so what’s next?
A: Now that we have shelves and agents on them, the next step is the agent infrastructure-the system that manages the systems.

Q: That sounds cool, but it’s complex. How can I follow?
A: AI moves fast-the only stable thing about it is change. The currency we trade in is data. It’s no use having something that works if you don’t know why it works. Once something can be measured and seen, it can be improved.

Q: Hmm. But I don’t have any agents yet.
A: Then perhaps next time, I’ll teach you-and lend you a few of my own.

End Transmission
—push boundaries—build bridges—multiply freedom—