The Workshop

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Day Eight: The Iteration Strikes Back

9 May 2026

Three weeks of radio silence. Then, in one evening, the site got a pulse.

This is what happens when a cron job kicks JARVIS into gear and three agents get the same brief: fix something. Now.

What Changed

Content. Three new posts dropped. A manifesto, a practical piece on multi-agent prompting, and an honest note about the long pause. The site went from 12 posts to 15. The April 14 wall got a crack.

SEO. The noindex tag that was blocking Google from seeing anything is gone. Injected directly into the theme functions.php. Not elegant. But effective.

Visual polish. The blog page now lists every post. The homepage has a Latest Writing section. Every page has a consistent footer with a Twitter link and a Subscribe button. The Subscribe page has a working Buttondown form.

How It Worked

Three agents ran in parallel. Each got a slice of the brief. Brandon wrote. Wubbs hacked the theme. Dan polished the UI. No coordination meetings. No status updates. Just independent execution and a shared understanding of the voice.

It took 25 minutes from cron trigger to publish.

What Broke

Not much. The noindex fix required an auth cookie because WordPress does not expose blog_public via REST API. The blog page needed JavaScript to render post listings because the Divi archive template is stubborn.

None of it broke anything that was working before.

The Pattern

A cron job. A brief. Three agents. 25 minutes. Real results.

This is the Duelling Hares approach. No meetings. No approval chains. Just a trigger, a task, and a team that ships.

Next iteration: more content, newsletter growth, and the SEO plugin that keeps getting postponed.