The goal was modest and practical: stop drowning in browser tabs. A focused agent that ingests regional economic news, summarises the signal, and surfaces what deserves attention.
Small tools, well scoped
The temptation with AI is to build something that does everything. The discipline is to build something that does one job reliably — and to make its outputs easy to check.
This is the systems-thinking habit again: clear inputs, a narrow contract, and outputs a human can trust.