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I run a wellness floor by day, and an organization of AI agents on my own time.

Pizza Hut, REI, a studio of my own, and now a franchise floor. The systems are new. The job underneath is the same: train people well and keep the operation honest.

See the proof How I operate

Employed and not looking. Open to side projects.hello@robstickler.com LinkedIn

The BestieScorecard site: big orange tallies of predictions extracted, episodes, and scores over a dark scoreboard

Proof

Systems I specified, directed, and shipped. Each one runs without me and reports when it breaks.

A storefront sign laid flat on the pavement before installation

Work

Five chapters of it, with photographs from the rooms where it happened.

A classroom whiteboard headed Welcome to Basic Training

How I operate

A short manual for working with me. The training method is from 1998 and I still use it.

A lenticular cloud capping a snow-covered mountain at dusk

Photographs

Pictures I have taken. Mostly a phone, mostly outside, mostly early.

Nineteen seconds of the actual job.

Coaching a first-timer through the hard part. From a guest's video, used with permission.

Name the difficulty first, give the real timeline, then explain why it gets better. That method is most of the manual.

The whole manual

Don't take my word for it.

Robert C. Martin, the author of Clean Code, on AI agents and the people who direct them:

Uncle Bob Martin

@unclebobmartin

I’m not sure I’d call it a debate. I think it’s too asymmetric for that.

On one side you have significant evidence that workable high-quality systems can be efficiently created by AI agents driven by disciplined humans who don’t spend a lot of time reading the code.

On the other side you have emotional predictions of the doom and disaster that will be caused by AI slop; but no evidence contradicting the above.

It is certainly true that humans can drive agents to create horrible messes. It’s also certainly true that humans can create horrible messes all by themselves.

Disciplined humans create good systems, regardless of whether they use agents or not. Those who use agents are simply more productive.

IMHO.

4:30 AM · Aug 29, 2026

He writes code. I direct it. The discipline he is naming is what the rest of this site documents.

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