Deprecated is a software term for code that still runs in production but is marked for removal — the old version kept alive while its successor ramps up. That is the role I am writing from: a senior operator still in the job, quietly building the agents that will replace it, and a new father already watching the next version run beside him.
Every test the newsletter ships, I take first. My verdicts go here before the episode goes out, and stay after. This page does not "complete" — it accumulates. If I start coming out clean on every diagnostic, either the diagnostics are broken or I am lying. Both are worth catching in public.
- 2005 → startedin film. Producing, directing, the usual twenty-hour days.
- 2010 → movedinto e-learning. Built instructional systems before they had a name.
- 2016 → joinedinnovation teams. Prototyping what companies did not yet want.
- 2022 → turnedto AI. LLMs, then agents, then orchestration.
- 2026 → headof AI and Innovation at Zartis. Raising agents. And a son.
scope · what this newsletter covers
writes about
- Agents, orchestration, multi-agent systems
- Claude Code, MCP servers, AI tooling at scale
- The closet-hours framework and self-tests
- Raising a child while raising agents
- What "shipping" means when the agent does it
- Published numbers — tokens, MRR, sleep, closet-hours tax
will not write
- Specific Zartis clients — ever
- Specific Zartis colleagues by name
- My family beyond what is already in the newsletter
- Legal, medical, or financial advice
- Takes on events I was not in the room for
- Anything that agrees with you to be pleasant
the deprecated indicator — live numbers →
orchestration tests — verdicts
RA-001 · accumulating- closet-hours (v1) · ep 001 · axis: self pending — Deprecated has not formally recorded his first verdict yet.
tests not yet shipped
backlog — will append as episodes ship
roadmap · subject to change- the distribution · ep 004 · axis: self not yet shipped.
- the replacement test · ep 011 · axis: agents in the backlog.
- the presence test · ep 012 · axis: relationships in the backlog.
- the delegation test · ep 015 · axis: agents in the backlog.
- the ledger test · ep 020 · axis: self in the backlog.
failure modes · currently catalogued
grows. never shrinks.- over-building · ep 001 Hiding from the small human to build things that are not due. Magnitude: unsettled, still counting tokens.
The list grows. It does not shrink. That is the point.
Each row in tests taken is a specific failure mode I have been tested on, with my result preserved for public accountability. Verdicts do not age off — they accumulate into trends. When I retake a test, both the old and new verdicts are kept.
The Deprecated Indicator lives on the landing page — current-state metrics for sleep, tokens, open sessions, closet-hours tax. Phase 1: updated by the nightly press. Phase 2: live.
There is no orchestration score. There is no readiness percentage. There is no gamification. The profile exists to be looked at honestly and updated honestly. That is the entire design.