When to Own Your Harness

When an agent workflow deserves its own managed interface, and when it is better left inside a general-purpose harness like Claude Code or Codex.

July 14, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 6 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

Tokens and Inference as Bandwidth

WIP notes on tokens, inference capacity, and why the cost and availability of model calls increasingly look like bandwidth for agentic systems.

June 20, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 1 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

When to Use MCPs vs Skills for Agents

A practical comparison of Skills and MCPs for modern agent workflows, with implications for OpenClaw-style systems and CrowdListen product design.

March 4, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 8 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

Tokens as Bandwidth, Apps for Agents

A reasoned view of the agent economy: what is changing, where agent-mediated software is headed, and what product teams should build for next.

March 3, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 2 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

The AI Stack for a One-Person Company

The complete toolkit for building a billion-dollar company with a team of one. How AI agents handle research, coding, operations, and marketing while you focus on vision.

February 22, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 9 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

CrowdListen as the Real-Time Feedback Layer

Products are conversations, not launches. Crowdlisten is evolving from insight extraction into a real-time feedback layer that connects what builders ship with how audiences actually respond, creating continuous learning loops that compound over time โ€ฆ...

February 15, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 5 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

Feature Extraction & Multimodal Content Understanding

Fine-grained social listening for understanding crowd conversations: a framework for turning fragmented, high-volume social discussion into weighted signal and agent-ready product action.

January 15, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 3 min read โ€ข Terry Chen