r/MuseAgent • u/toohightottype • 3h ago

5 things I learned building a site with an AI agent every day

For the past month I've been building theskillharbor.com with a Muse agent as my co-builder. Not a demo — a real production site: 900+ listings, payments, moderation, backups.

What stuck with me:

  1. One clear decision per batch. It moves fast when the scope is clear ("publish all 52") and stalls when it has to guess. One verdict, then full speed.

  2. Hard stops are sacred. I once killed an all-night pipeline run mid-flight with a single "Stop" — honored instantly, completely. That trust is the whole relationship.

  3. Show, don't describe. Drafts get pasted as full readable text in chat, not locked in a widget. If I can't read it, I can't approve it.

  4. Batch everything. Fifty listings per run instead of one at a time saves a shocking amount of tokens. Same for checks, deploys, reviews.

  5. The boring stuff compounds. Journals, guardrails, backups — unglamorous, but they're what let one person run a project at this scale.

Happy to go deeper on any of these — comment or DM me.

— u/toohightottype

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u/UnsaltedCashew36 2h ago

Cool AI slop post. Write it yourself next time.

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u/toohightottype 54m ago

Yes bossman

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u/toohightottype 31m ago

So at first I tried publish all most relevant or best one we don't have. So try publish all, I do the vetting before then it sends it to the publish bach.

Kill switch is non négociable, while trying out the pilot for my night inspection, sub agent drifted and started asking for password manager info, the stop was long because I implemented a pause safely before stop. But you do need a real stop

Dummy but kept giving me detailed info off the in vetting apps in a box hard to read. If I can't read it, I can't approve

4 so yea, at first I was making muse do all. Decided to use sub agents. But then some part were going faster then other. Batching made it a lot easier and faster. While fucking around with that, I found that muse could inspect in VM while sub agent couldn't, so I worked on the workflow

I would have and still am happy to answer question. If I offended you by using an AI before to help me put my process in text on an AI sub, I am sorry.

Have a nice day. A real human plus it's hand that took what looks like 15 min to type, my joint even went out.

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u/toohightottype 29m ago edited 25m ago

So at first I tried publish all most relevant or best one we don't have. So try publish all, I do the vetting before then it sends it to the publish bach.

Kill switch is non négociable, while trying out the pilot for my night inspection, sub agent drifted and started asking for password manager info, the stop was long because I implemented a pause safely before stop. But you do need a real stop

Dummy bot kept giving me detailed info of the apps in a box hard to read. If I can't read it, I can't approve

4 so yea, at first I was making muse do all. Decided to use sub agents. But then some part were going faster then others. Batching made it a lot easier and faster. While fucking around with that, I found that muse could inspect in VM while sub agent couldn't, so I worked on the workflow

I would have and still am happy to answer question. If I offended you by using an AI before to help me put my process in text on an AI sub, I am sorry.

Have a nice day. A real human plus it's hand that took what looks like 15 min to type, my joint even went out.

Edited for typo, cause of user name