IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
155 articles
10 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Noon session — architecture vocabulary deep dive: scalability, latency, microservices, and how to explain system design to non-tech stakeholders.
Read more06 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
AI coding
Is your Claude Code token usage insanely high? The culprit might be your architecture. Learn how DRY principles and clear system design slash AI token costs.
Read more26 May 2026 · 10 min read
agentic coding
Microsoft cancelled thousands of Claude Code licenses. Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. The technical reason why - and what every engineering team should do about it.
Read more23 May 2026 · 11 min read
agents
A Tech Lead's field notes from shipping production AI agents — why custom agents still matter, how to avoid the infra money pit, the architecture pattern that actually works, and why understanding your client matters more than understanding transformers.
Read more19 Apr 2026 · 28 min read
ai
Part 3 of 12 — How to architect a multi-agent system using Domain-Driven Design principles. Define bounded contexts, domain events, state machines, and communication patterns for your AI software team.
Read more18 Apr 2026 · 12 min read
agentic-ai
A complete technical guide to building a profitable agentic AI system using only open-source tools — with retrieval, orchestration, tool use, and observability. Includes architecture diagrams and real cost analysis.
Read more06 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
ai-agents
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol crossed 97M installs in March 2026. As a Technical Lead who's been building with MCP since early days, here's what that milestone actually means — and why every developer building AI systems needs to understand it now.
Read more04 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Meta dropped Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, and Behemoth. Google fired back with Gemma 4. As a Technical Lead, here's what these releases actually mean for your teams and projects.
Read more03 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
2026
Alibaba just released its third proprietary model in days. Google's Gemini Flash-Lite costs $0.25 per million tokens. NVIDIA's Nemotron runs 2.2x faster than GPT-OSS-120B. The LLM cost war has arrived — here's what it means for architects choosing AI infrastructure in 2026.
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