Travis Frisinger

I'm Travis Frisinger — 25 years of software engineering, now Head of Agentic AI at 8th Light. I write and talk about what it actually takes to build AI systems that work in production: where decision rights live, why most "agents" are workflows in a trench coat, and how the old craft disciplines — tests, feedback, boundaries — became the control surfaces of the AI era.

Two threads run through this channel:

AI Buddy — agency, loops, and control systems. What separates an LLM feature from a system that can pursue an objective, and how enterprises cross that gap without burning down production.

TDD Buddy — verification in the agentic era. Tests as the signal agents hill-climb on, evals as tests wearing a lab coat, and why coverage was always a proxy.

No hype, no demos of things that fall over in production. Scar tissue included.

Essays: aibuddy.software · tddbuddy.com