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Deep technical writing, product updates, and thinking from the cmodl team.

How we built the Human-in-the-Loop approval gate: intercepting Terraform in real-time

When an AI agent suggests running terraform apply on your production cluster, you want to see exactly what it's about to do — and have a hard stop before it proceeds. Here's how we built the gate that makes that possible.

Jordan Park

March 5, 20268 min readRead article →

Architecture

Five specialized agents beat one general-purpose model: lessons from building cmodl

We tried the obvious approach first — one powerful model that does everything. Here's what we learned when we abandoned it in favor of five narrow specialists.

Alex Chen·February 20, 2026·6 min read

Process

Why we wrote 190 architecture decision records before shipping a line of product code

ADRs aren't documentation overhead. For a platform where AI agents make real infrastructure decisions, they're the mechanism that keeps humans in control.

Sam Rivera·February 10, 2026·5 min read

Demo

From Figma to production in 47 minutes: a Prototyper agent walkthrough

We took a real Figma file from a design handoff, fed it to the Prototyper agent, and tracked every step to production. Here's what the output looked like.

Jordan Park·January 28, 2026·7 min read

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