Articles and project notes: platform engineering, AI tooling, and home automation.https://robtuckfield.com/https://robtuckfield.com/articles/armada/https://robtuckfield.com/articles/armada/AI tools mean the people closest to the work can build their own apps now. The bottleneck moved to deploying them safely. Armada is how my team is solving that at a regulated firm.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robtuckfield.com/articles/vamos/https://robtuckfield.com/articles/vamos/Our quarterly comp reconciliation used to end with a macro opening two hundred emails. Now it ends with one button, and the interesting part is everything that made the finance team comfortable pressing it.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robtuckfield.com/articles/carl/https://robtuckfield.com/articles/carl/I built CARL, an autonomous pipeline meant to let non-engineers ship features: Jira story in, finished pull request out. He works. He also lost a fair fight to an engineer driving good tooling, and the reasons why changed how I use AI agents.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robtuckfield.com/home-automation/how-i-think-about-home-automation/https://robtuckfield.com/home-automation/how-i-think-about-home-automation/Why the house runs on Home Assistant, locally, and the rules that keep the automation from becoming a second job.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT