Branden Espinoza

Where the WIld Things Grow

I Didn't Send You a Resume. I Shipped You a Product.

27 February 2026 · free

I stood up an AI-agent delivery system that shipped Paywritr, a Bitcoin Lightning paywalled blogging platform (the one you are looking at now), using separate Product and Engineering agents with isolated workspaces, persistent memory, scoped tool permissions, and enforced quality gates. This post breaks down the operating model and control surfaces that made the workflow deterministic, auditable, and resilient under token and context constraints.