Paul Barrick — building agentic systems and marketing infrastructure in Denver. Writing on AI agents, PKM, and shipping in the open.https://blog.byte-sized.io/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/pcms-in-an-ai-first-world/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/pcms-in-an-ai-first-world/LLMs are powerful but context-blind by default. A PCMS — your notes, daily logs, and projects, structured so an AI can read them — is the real leverage in an AI-first world.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/executive-burnout-agentic-development/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/executive-burnout-agentic-development/Why the leaders building autonomous AI systems are uniquely vulnerable to burnout—and what the data reveals about protecting yourself in the agentic era.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/the-dark-side-of-agentic-development/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/the-dark-side-of-agentic-development/AI agents promise infinite productivity. But when you are the orchestrator of 50+ agents across multiple runtimes, the cognitive load can be crushing. Here is what nobody talks about.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/what-happens-when-the-partys-over/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/what-happens-when-the-partys-over/Token prices have been falling for two years. They will not fall forever. Here is how I am architecting agentic systems to survive the day one provider stops being economical.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/playwright-mcp-swiss-army-knife/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/playwright-mcp-swiss-army-knife/How a browser automation protocol became the most versatile tool in our AI agent arsenal — from debugging and design analysis to test preconditions and speeding through unfamiliar domains.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/building-an-ai-agent-army/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/building-an-ai-agent-army/How I set up 50+ AI agents across two runtimes that delegate tasks, chain workflows, and communicate through Discord — all from my couch.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/from-prd-to-pixel-ai-design-pipeline/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/from-prd-to-pixel-ai-design-pipeline/A deep dive into our 5-stage AI design workflow — from product requirements through ASCII wireframes, Nano Banana mockups, Veo animations, and autonomous agent handoffs that ship production code.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/creating-astro-posts-in-obsidian/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/creating-astro-posts-in-obsidian/Create markdown statically generated blog posts in Obsidian and have them automatically published to the web.Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/vendor-independent-context-engineering-taskmaster/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/vendor-independent-context-engineering-taskmaster/How to build AI agent orchestration that is not locked to any single vendor — using Taskmaster AI open spec with MCP-powered context aggregation.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/pcms-manifesto/https://blog.byte-sized.io/blog/pcms-manifesto/Why Personal Knowledge Management Systems fall short in the age of AI agents — and how a Personal Context Management System built on Obsidian, Qdrant, and Supabase changes everything.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT