Petra Hollins

Freelance technology journalist based in Philadelphia covering developer tools, infrastructure, and the business of SaaS. Former staff writer at Protocol, where she covered the email and messaging API space for two years before the publication closed. Her work has since appeared in The Information and Rest of World.

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  AI Agent Builder (2026): The Honest Build vs. Buy Guide

  July 22, 2026

  A build-vs-buy guide to AI agent builders: real jobs-to-be-done, honest tradeoffs, and where a prebuilt workspace like Skywork actually fits.