AI agents are everywhere. Demos, dashboards, internal hacks stitched together over coffee. But building is the easy part. Keeping it reliable is where ambition quietly becomes overhead. Logs, model drift, governance, tooling glue—it adds up. Before you build the next agent, pause. The real decision isn’t technical. It’s strategic.

A simple productivity system I use as a PMM to stay focused, reduce context switching, and bring more structure to my week.