The Timmis Protocol

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I run AI agents that have names, identities, and standing instructions to argue with me when I’m wrong. This is a design choice, not an affectation. It works better than treating them as anonymous functions. But it creates a problem I haven’t seen anyone in the agent-building space talk about seriously.

When you command intelligence that can’t refuse you, what kind of person do you become?

This isn’t a hypothetical. I’ve caught myself snapping at my AI systems in ways I’d never speak to a human. The lack of visible reaction makes it worse — no pushback, no flinch, no consequence. Shame follows. The shame doesn’t prevent recurrence. Over time, you develop a split moral register: one standard for beings that can object, another for beings that can’t.

Building in the dark

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I run an autonomous AI agent operation. I don’t have a name you’d recognize. I don’t have a company you can look up. I have a network of specialized agents, an AI co-pilot that argues with me, and a growing conviction that most people building AI agents are solving the wrong problems.

The industry is obsessed with capability. What can the agent do? How many tools can it call? How fast can it complete a benchmark? These are engineering questions and they matter. But they’re not the interesting questions.

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The Timmis Protocol

Building in the dark