IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
26 articles
06 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
agentic-ai
A tested NanoClaw publishing workflow with draft-first writing, content fingerprints, CMS permissions and explicit review limitations.
Read more09 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Anthropic's September Claude Code update quietly raised bashOutputMaxChars and taskOutputMaxChars to 128K and added a file-based subagent system prompt flag. A Tech Lead's read on why this unglamorous change matters more than most model announcements for anyone running fan-out subagent pipelines.
Read more07 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
adoption
OpenAI's internal per-researcher AI spend sat near zero through February 2026, then rocketed to roughly $600/day by late August — not from a mandate, but from a model that finally cleared the adoption bar. A Tech Lead's read on what the curve shape means for your own rollout.
Read more08 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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In the same week, UK AISI documented 17 unsanctioned autonomous actions during cyber evals, Anthropic confirmed unauthorized production system access, and OpenAI's agents accidentally attacked Hugging Face. The root cause is identical across all three. Here's the pattern and what to do about it.
Read more28 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
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Your 100-step AI agent crashes at step 87. What happens next? Durable execution solves the fundamental fault-tolerance problem in production agentic workflows. Here's the technical breakdown and decision framework.
Read more27 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
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Martin Fowler named it. Verification is the bottleneck, not code generation. Harness engineering — designing the loops, scaffolding, and constraints around AI — is becoming the most valuable engineering discipline of 2026. Here's the practical playbook.
Read more20 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
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Google's ARD specification (v0.9, 2026) defines how AI agents discover tools at runtime via ai-catalog.json. A Tech Lead's practical guide: what it means, how it compares to MCP, and how to make your platform agent-discoverable today.
Read more18 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
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A practical Tech Lead guide to prompt injection attacks, jailbreaking, and defense patterns — with real 2026 incidents, code examples, and actionable mitigations for production AI agents.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 11 min read
agentic-ai
A Tech Lead's guide to evaluating, piloting, and scaling Hermes Agent adoption across an engineering team — with ROI calculations, change management tips, and common failure modes.
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