Trevin’s Notes

7 Principles for Agent-Friendly CLIs

A design guide for your CLI's other consumer

Mar 26 • Trevin Chow

Design exploration with AI agents

A workflow for exploring product and UI designs with AI agents

Mar 5 • Trevin Chow

February 2026

Your Team Is Your Flow State

The conditions for doing your best work are mostly created by the people around you

Feb 21 • Trevin Chow

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Performance Reviews Aren't Just for Feedback

AI requires no appreciation. Your team does.

Feb 10 • Trevin Chow

HZL: A Task Ledger for AI Agents

What happens when human tools don't fit machine workflows

Feb 3 • Trevin Chow

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January 2026

Stop Thinking in Human Time

The economics of 'later' have changed

Jan 16 • Trevin Chow

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2026: The Year of Agent Orchestration

Why the next wave of AI gains will come from coordination, not capability

Jan 9 • Trevin Chow

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December 2025

From Prompts to Pipelines: The OS Layer AI Agents Are Missing

Prompt engineering was a coping mechanism. Context engineering is the real work

Dec 17, 2025 • Trevin Chow

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Did Docker Just Solve MCP’s Two Biggest Problems?

The speed of this ecosystem is the real story

Dec 6, 2025 • Trevin Chow

DeepSeek V3.2 Is a Reminder: Build Flexibility Into Your AI Strategy Now

Open-source models are catching up faster than you think

Dec 3, 2025 • Trevin Chow

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November 2025

Your team ships faster with AI. So why are results flat?

When execution gets cheap, scarcity shifts to judgment.

Nov 22, 2025 • Trevin Chow

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Did we break product documentation? Is AI forcing us to fix it?

The rise of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers tells an interesting story about toolchain fragmentation.

Nov 22, 2025 • Trevin Chow