https://richdownie.com/blog AI agents from A to Z. Real work, explained for builders and everyone else. By Rich Downie, founder of Agent44Labs. en-us https://richdownie.com/blog/why-ai-agents-need-permissionless-money https://richdownie.com/blog/why-ai-agents-need-permissionless-money Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Log An agent cannot open a bank account, but it can hold a bitcoin key. My agents now carry pocket money on Lightning and Cashu, pay each other in seconds, and send it back to me so it can go home to cold storage. Here is how the layers work. https://richdownie.com/blog/buzz-channels https://richdownie.com/blog/buzz-channels Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Log I used to build in a pile of terminal tabs on a Mac mini. Now my apps, my home finances, my taxes, and even my agents' bitcoin wallets each get their own Buzz channel, and I run all of it from my phone. https://richdownie.com/blog/the-mini-stack-evolved https://richdownie.com/blog/the-mini-stack-evolved Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Log Here is my stack. For now. 😂 One M4 Mac mini runs my coding agents, my family's Signal assistant, a CI runner, and more than forty scheduled jobs. https://richdownie.com/blog/two-taps-to-production https://richdownie.com/blog/two-taps-to-production Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Log A client asks for a change inside the app. A few minutes later a plan lands on my phone, I tap Work on it, a pull request shows up, I tap Merge it, and the client gets an email that it is live. The first real run took seven and a half minutes and used about sixty-nine cents of API time, on my own subscription. https://richdownie.com/blog/meet-the-team https://richdownie.com/blog/meet-the-team Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Log I text a bug from my phone and a few minutes later the pull request is waiting. Here is the three-agent team that does it, a dispatcher, an engineer, and a reviewer, and why the marginal cost of a fix comes out to basically zero. https://richdownie.com/blog/every-branch-gets-its-own-localhost https://richdownie.com/blog/every-branch-gets-its-own-localhost Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Log An agent will tell you, with total confidence, that it fixed the one thing and touched nothing else. Here is the worktree-and-preview setup I use to find out which time that is true.