Signal · the blog
Systems, the decisions behind them, and what broke.
Long-form notes on building automation that survives contact with reality. Written for people who build, not a recap of this week's AI headlines.
May 20, 2026
The boring choice is usually the senior one
Why I keep choosing deterministic pipelines over agents, and how to tell which problem you actually have.
May 12, 2026
A classifier that fires on everything is just noise wearing a costume
Tuning a signal-detection system around what it chooses *not* to surface — and why precision beats recall in any tool a human has to trust.
Apr 6, 2026
Plain English In. Production Workflow Out.
A production setup that turns plain-language descriptions into live n8n workflows via the MCP server — and an honest accounting of where it breaks.
Feb 18, 2026
Why Every B2B Marketer Needs to Understand n8n
LLMs, MCPs, and AI agents — what each layer actually does, and how n8n ties them into workflows that replace costly human capital where it counts.