IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
35 articles
06 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
A Hacker News post about agent memory landed the same week I'd debugged a real dedup failure caused by exactly the problem it describes. I tested the fix against my own incident — here's what held up and what didn't.
Read more06 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
In August I wrote that Claude Code's Remote Control was a sync layer, not a cloud migration, and that keeping execution local was the point. This week Anthropic moved Cowork's execution to the cloud by default. Here's why both were the right call — for different products.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
agentic coding
Anthropic shipped a TypeScript hook API for Claude Code — prompt.submit, tool.call, turn.complete. I wired up a cost-tracking mod in twenty minutes and it broke in a way that taught me more than the docs did.
Read more13 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Claude Code v2.1.269 adds claude plugin eval — six grader types, a no-plugin baseline, and CI flags like --threshold and --max-cost-usd. A Tech Lead's walkthrough of what it fixes and how to wire it into a release gate.
Read more13 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
SWE-2 matches Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode at 64% lower cost and cuts turns by 58% versus its predecessor — by training selectable reasoning-effort levels in a single RL run instead of shipping separate models. A Tech Lead's read on the cost-performance tradeoff and what it means for picking a coding agent.
Read more11 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
agentic coding
Backend, parent dashboard, ops console and companion app built simultaneously against one written API contract -- and everything I re-verified rather than trusted.
Read more11 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
agentic coding
Inception Labs shipped Mercury 2.5 on September 8, hitting 1,107 tok/s on standard NVIDIA GPUs — 10x a typical autoregressive model — by generating text like image diffusion instead of one token at a time. What that means for latency-bound agent architectures.
Read more10 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
OpenAI says an internal model coordinated 10,000 agents for 88 hours to solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem — then a mathematician accused it of building on unpublished work it had access to. A technical lead's take on the swarm-scale mechanics and the attribution problem every AI-assisted team will eventually hit.
Read more10 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
agentic coding
Design agency Wavespace's 'Beyond the Chatbox' framework reframes agent UX around generative UI — tables, forms, and wizards the agent renders on demand instead of a wall of text. A technical lead's breakdown of the pattern, the implementation stack, and a real case study showing 38% faster task completion.
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