Went LIVE with the new version of the website today

I could have pushed the new site within the hour of starting the work on it four days ago and it would have probably looked just fine, but I chose to spend the extra time learning how it is actually built, and by the 4th day I am so much more knowledgeable about the inner workings of all of it.

In the process, I also enhanced my agentic system to have 6 recruits who are helping me build, review, diagnose, and keep things in check.

A lot of the steps today involved ‘plumbing’ on the hosting space, testing thoroughly before pushing it live, and deciding whether the apex or the www version of the domain was canonical. Who knew? Both are different sites, and one needs to pick one to be the default that the other one re-routes to.

Btw, this learning came from Gautam (my Chief Engineer agent), who reviewed the change and found my redirects only matched the URLs without a trailing slash, while Google had actually indexed the trailing-slash versions. Five of six old essay URLs would have quietly 404’d and lost their ranking, and I’d have shipped it.

The lesson I’m taking: treat launching as a checklist. The cheapest line on it is a second reader whose whole job is to be skeptical

This made me ask myself, why not have my agents hold their first meeting themselves and review the whole vault and share their ‘executive summary’ with me.

So, I did do that. I built a format where each agent individually reviews the whole vault and creates a summary. Then each agent reviews the others’ summaries and puts pointers where they have a different opinion, and it goes back and forth for 3 rounds. After this Nadia (the Chief of Staff) summarizes that into bullets for me.

Not only did I run this with Claude as the AI, but I also used Gemma 4 (a local LLM) to do the same exact exercise. Gemma took 2.5 times longer (~20 min) and had a slightly more generic recommendation. But overall quite impressive.

Thinking of trying it a few more times in the coming days before making it a regular cadence.