<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Daniel Zuloaga — Writing</title><description>Notes on building with AI agents, agentic workflows, and the judgment calls that still belong to people.</description><link>https://www.zulo.dev</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>AI safety without locking in the leaders</title><link>https://www.zulo.dev/blog/ai-safety-without-locking-in-the-leaders</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zulo.dev/blog/ai-safety-without-locking-in-the-leaders</guid><description>Pacing frontier AI could buy time for safety while entrenching the labs setting the pace. The rules need to survive cheaper, more widely available capabilities.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Policy</category><category>Competition</category></item><item><title>If AI saves time, why does the workday keep expanding?</title><link>https://www.zulo.dev/blog/if-ai-saves-time-why-does-the-workday-keep-expanding</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zulo.dev/blog/if-ai-saves-time-why-does-the-workday-keep-expanding</guid><description>AI makes more goals feel reachable. Why ambition can turn saved time into a heavier workload—and why that may be America&apos;s lasting AI advantage.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Work</category><category>Culture</category><category>Entrepreneurship</category></item><item><title>13 illustration styles, revisited: GPT Image 2 vs. Nano Banana 2</title><link>https://www.zulo.dev/blog/illustration-styles-gpt-image-2-vs-nano-banana-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zulo.dev/blog/illustration-styles-gpt-image-2-vs-nano-banana-2</guid><description>26 images, 13 styles, one shared scene: a side-by-side comparison of GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2, with notes on style, detail, and composition.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Illustration</category><category>Prompt Engineering</category><category>Design</category><category>Creative Workflow</category></item><item><title>The first hour and the next few months</title><link>https://www.zulo.dev/blog/the-first-hour-and-the-next-few-months</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zulo.dev/blog/the-first-hour-and-the-next-few-months</guid><description>Building with AI can move faster than your understanding of the app. The long work is learning what exists, how it fits together, and what to ask for next.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Workflow</category><category>Developer Experience</category><category>Product</category></item><item><title>Design AI workflows like access can break</title><link>https://www.zulo.dev/blog/design-ai-workflows-like-access-can-break</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zulo.dev/blog/design-ai-workflows-like-access-can-break</guid><description>AI access is now a business dependency. Dependencies fail. Here is how to build workflows that survive.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Workflow</category><category>Product</category><category>Operations</category><category>Infrastructure</category></item><item><title>The uneven days of building with agents</title><link>https://www.zulo.dev/blog/the-uneven-days-of-agentic-building</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zulo.dev/blog/the-uneven-days-of-agentic-building</guid><description>Building gets faster. Deciding what deserves the time, finding customers, and making the economics work still take judgment.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Codex</category><category>Workflow</category><category>AI</category><category>Developer Experience</category><category>Product</category></item><item><title>What changes when an agent can do the boring part?</title><link>https://www.zulo.dev/blog/building-products-for-agents</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zulo.dev/blog/building-products-for-agents</guid><description>A proposed loan onboarding workflow, and how I would judge whether faster fixes create a better product and a stronger business.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Codex</category><category>Workflow</category><category>AI</category><category>Developer Experience</category><category>Product</category></item><item><title>11 illustration styles that work well with AI image models</title><link>https://www.zulo.dev/blog/ai-illustration-styles-for-ai-prompts</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zulo.dev/blog/ai-illustration-styles-for-ai-prompts</guid><description>The same scene recreated in 11 styles across GPT Image and Gemini, with the exact prompt blocks I used and notes on what held up.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Illustration</category><category>Prompt Engineering</category><category>Design</category><category>Creative Workflow</category></item><item><title>How Git worktrees work</title><link>https://www.zulo.dev/blog/how-git-worktrees-work</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zulo.dev/blog/how-git-worktrees-work</guid><description>Git worktrees give each Codex task its own folder and branch without duplicating the repository.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Codex</category><category>Git</category><category>Workflow</category><category>AI</category><category>Developer Experience</category></item></channel></rss>