<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Niel Cody — Writing</title><description>What breaks in hospitality software when the room is full.</description><link>https://www.nielcody.com/</link><item><title>How I built a product council</title><link>https://www.nielcody.com/writing/how-i-built-a-product-council/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nielcody.com/writing/how-i-built-a-product-council/</guid><description>Synthetic users agree with everything and know nothing about a docket rail. So I built a panel designed to disagree.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Write down the kill signal</title><link>https://www.nielcody.com/writing/write-down-the-kill-signal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nielcody.com/writing/write-down-the-kill-signal/</guid><description>A decision is not finished when it is made. It is finished when you have written down what would prove it wrong.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>An agent that writes to a live till</title><link>https://www.nielcody.com/writing/autonomy-and-reversibility/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nielcody.com/writing/autonomy-and-reversibility/</guid><description>A wrong answer costs trust. A wrong action costs money. How much autonomy an AI agent gets should depend on one thing.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Friday Night Test</title><link>https://www.nielcody.com/writing/the-friday-night-test/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nielcody.com/writing/the-friday-night-test/</guid><description>Most hospitality software demos beautifully, then meets 8pm. One question fixes most of it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>