# Emmanuel Ruiz > Essays by Emmanuel Ruiz on building software at the frontier: leading AI agents, shipping at pace, holding the quality bar. Emmanuel Ruiz is a software engineering manager at Arthrex. This site holds long-form essays on building software with AI agents at the frontier: pace, quality, and what gets learned on the way. Everything is written by the author and may be quoted with attribution and a link. ## Essays - [One Month at the Frontier](https://mister99.dev/essay/one-month-at-the-frontier/): One month of X-Ray: what shipped, what I got wrong, and why a medical device company's web team belongs at the AI frontier. (October 2026) ## Full text - [llms-full.txt](https://mister99.dev/llms-full.txt): every essay in full, as Markdown - [feed.xml](https://mister99.dev/feed.xml): Atom feed - [sitemap.xml](https://mister99.dev/sitemap.xml) ## Author - Name: Emmanuel Ruiz - Role: Software Engineering Manager, Arthrex - Site: https://mister99.dev/ - https://github.com/ehnruiz