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  <title>Bart Kolendowski · Writing</title>
  <subtitle>What language models change when the stakes are real.</subtitle>
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    <name>Bart Kolendowski</name>
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    <title>The Restraint Problem</title>
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    <published>2026-07-10T00:00:00Z</published>
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    <summary>Agent leverage doesn't fix your bottleneck, it moves it. When building gets cheap, volume detaches from value, and the scarce skill becomes restraint. What one operator learned running a company on a fleet of agents.</summary>
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    <title>A Fleet, Not an Assistant</title>
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    <published>2026-07-08T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-07-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>One AI assistant is a tool you drive. A fleet of agents working unattended is a management problem: an inbox, approval gates, written rules, and a weekly cadence. Lessons from running a real business this way.</summary>
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    <title>The Constraint Problem</title>
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    <published>2026-05-18T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>On why agents excel at coding but fail at project planning, hiring decisions, and strategy: the constraint problem, and how the Socratic method closes it.</summary>
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    <title>Language Models: Patterns of Engagement</title>
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    <published>2026-04-15T00:00:00Z</published>
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    <summary>Five asymmetries between managing people and managing language models, three anti-patterns, and one meta-principle.</summary>
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