The Dispatch
Guides, strategies, and workflow tips for comic sellers on Whatnot.
The Harness Builds the Harness: 14 PRs in 18 Hours
What happens when you fork an open-source workflow engine, layer a behavior policy on top, define five workflow templates, and dispatch a coordinated AI team against them in one weekend. The substrate is the durable asset.
Scripts Still Matter in the AI Age
Three layers of internal documentation didn’t stop an AI agent from inventing its own SSH bypass at 6 AM on a Friday. Here’s the five-piece fix and why doctrine alone isn’t enough when the operator is an LLM.
Klaus the n8n Octopus: Resurrecting a Dormant Agent Without Creating Frankenstein’s Monster
A year-old AI agent design didn’t ship. When the time came to revive it, the obvious move — finishing the original spec — was the failure mode. Here’s how to resurrect dormant agents without stitching together Frankenstein.
Why I Deliberately Separate Execution from Review Across Model Families
Should you standardize on one model family, or deliberately split execution and review across two? A one-engineer SaaS picked the second option. Here’s why and what it catches.
Five Doctrine Rules I Landed in One Morning by Listening to My Own Pushbacks
A five-hour conversation with my AI agent produced five new doctrine rules — all because I treated the conversation itself as a product, not a transcript.
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89 sealed Daredevil #1 True Believers Blind Bags are hitting our WhatNot show TODAY at 10 AM EST. Every bag is a mystery. $5.99 each. You could pull a Cover A, a Peach Momoko, a…
How We Built a CI/CD Pipeline Where AI Reviews AI’s Code
Doctrine v2.0 BDC Dual-Gate Build Pipeline War Council validates design. Captain CI validates code. No AI marks its own work complete. XO Spec Read source code. Write behavior spec. → War Council Review Design Arch…
The Anatomy of a Work Order Pipeline: How We Build LiveSeller Pro
How we built a structured Work Order pipeline using Notion, n8n, and hard-learned lessons from eight weeks of AI-assisted development.
Behind the Scenes: The War Council — How AI Agent Teams Named Our Product Line
How our AI agent teams — The War Council — helped name the entire Live Seller Pro product family, from Store OS to Shop Ops HQ, with taglines rooted in 82nd Airborne heritage.
Convention Selling vs Online Selling: A Comic Dealer’s Guide
Convention selling vs online selling — how smart comic dealers use both channels together to maximize reach, revenue, and inventory turns.