Field notes on AI automation

How we find where a workflow gets stuck, how we fix it, and what went wrong along the way.

Every post comes from a real project. We write most of them in Traditional Chinese; this is a selection translated into English. The full archive is on the Chinese blog.

Four agents in Orca: flightwake's single-writer rule

Claude Code and Codex share one Orca window, and our project manager agent started coding after /clear. The multi-agent rules we set with flightwake.

Kai Wu2026/10/12
6 min
#Small and mid-sized businesses#AI-assisted development#flightwake

MCP v2 removes state: three signals we read in the spec

MCP v2, released in late July 2026, makes the protocol fully stateless. Three signals: cheaper deployment, first-class agent traffic, a deprecation policy.

Kai Wu2026/8/7
3 min
#MCP#AI agents#Cloudflare

Connecting Search Console to our AI workflow: an MCP setup log

Connecting Search Console to Claude Code with mcp-gsc: keeping credentials out of git, choosing a scope, and a loading trap that looks like a failed install.

Kai Wu2026/8/3
4 min
#Google Search Console#MCP#Claude Code

Same job, 8x the cost: choose AI models by role, not by ranking

The same job can cost 8x more on a flagship model than a lightweight one. How to match model tiers to the work, and how caching and routing protect the budget.

Kai Wu2026/7/27
5 min
#Small and mid-sized businesses#AI model selection#AI cost control

11 RSS feeds and a Telegram bot: how we run our own AI news site for $0 a month

The pipeline behind kdzone.net: 11 RSS feeds aggregated automatically, topics picked with three numbers in Telegram, posts in our own voice, for $0 a month.

Kai Wu2026/7/22
5 min
#Small and mid-sized businesses#AI-assisted development#n8n

When the model can drive itself: we rebuilt our navigation framework and open-sourced flightwake

Newer models no longer need step-by-step navigation, but four problems remain. Why we rebuilt our AI workflow framework as a dashcam and open-sourced it.

Kai Wu2026/7/19
7 min
#flightwake#AI-assisted development#Open source