Notes from building Cyril: the decisions, the failures, and what they taught us about software an agent can operate.
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Cyril is a full business platform built by AI, directed by one person. The interesting part is not the speed — it is that the practices which make AI a reliable developer turn out to be the same practices that make software agent-ready.
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