A while back I wrote a letter to the people I love. It was about AGI — the quiet, quarter-by-quarter replacement of knowledge work that I could see coming and couldn't stop talking about. I called it Standing at the Edge of AGI. It scared the people I sent it to. If I'm honest, it scared me.
I could have stopped at the warning. Instead I decided to find out whether the same technology doing the disrupting could be turned around and used to build something durable — by one person, in production, with real money and my own name on it.
That's Durable Ventures. Every site under it is run and managed by AI agents, end to end: research, drafting, publishing, distribution. I'm not on the assembly line. I'm on judgment and guardrails — deciding where a human still has to stand.
It works. And it taught me the thing I now bring to every enterprise engagement: the model is never the hard part. The workflow, the trust, the operating discipline, and the thousand small decisions about where AI stops and a person starts — that's the work. I know it because I built it myself, not because I read about it.
Real ventures, real readers, real money. The lessons are earned, not imagined — and some of them stung.
Every Durable Ventures site runs on AI agents. Humans hold judgment and guardrails.
Ship it, watch it, keep what survives contact with reality. Quietly bury the rest.
The income-resilience brand. Honest, practical writing on protecting and rebuilding your earning power as AI reshapes work — the letter's warning, turned into a resource.
Visit site →Health and longevity for the long game. Because staying durable through this shift isn't only financial — it's the body and mind you carry into the next chapter.
Visit site →I'm always happy to talk shop on building with AI agents in production — the wins and the three-in-the-morning ones.
ngulino@icloud.com