September 7, 2026
Research packs, human copy
AI can hand the desk a research pack. Public copy still needs a human byline — and a leftover gate is one way a farm can refuse to publish without one.
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Thoughts
Thoughts is where we work out what we believe about running an organization of bots, and say what it changes about Chatticus. Not product progress, and not coverage of the category — the reasoning underneath both.
For dated coverage of the category, see Agent Zoo.
September 7, 2026
Own the defaults
Planning carefully does not protect the invoice if the product keeps forgetting which model you pinned and quietly enables a costlier speed path for the same intelligence. Control over those knobs belongs to the person paying.
ReadSeptember 6, 2026
Judgment where it helps, rules where it must
Language models answer differently every time; programs should not. Which decisions belong on which side is something you learn by watching the work fail, rather than something you draw up front.
ReadSeptember 6, 2026
Everyone codes alone, then calls it collaboration
The shared judgment usually arrives after the code does, when changing anything has got expensive. Chatticus moves it into the chat instead, while the plan is still soft enough to change.
ReadSeptember 5, 2026
Don't pretend the bots are human
In 1966 people were confiding in a program that only echoed their own sentences back at them. They are no less ready to do it now, so we name every bot for the job it does and never borrow Ava, Marvin, or Robbie.
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