IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
905 articles
16 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
ai-infrastructure
AWS Interconnect – multicloud with Azure went into preview in August, capped at 1 Gbps and four regions. That's not enough bandwidth for training, but it's exactly enough to fix the multi-vendor inference problem we've been duct-taping for a year.
Read more15 Sep 2026 · 3 min read
ai
A friend's offhand comment sent me back to check my own AI habits against a new study on dependent vs. autonomous cognitive offloading. The two feel identical in the moment. They aren't.
Read more15 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
agents
Fable 5.1 can read every earlier Claude model's thinking blocks. No earlier model can read Fable 5.1's. That asymmetry looks like a footnote until your team needs to roll back a production agent mid-incident.
Read more15 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
cloudflare
Node.js compatibility on by default, a 64 MiB size cap, and a URL-based module registry landed in Workers on September 9. I moved a small Express-style API over. Here's what actually broke and what didn't.
Read more15 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering LLM evaluation and hallucination with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Qdrant released a 10-billion-document benchmark dataset on September 1, 2026, built from over a quadrillion brute-force distance calculations. I ran our production filter patterns against the old 1M-vector benchmark we'd been trusting. The gap explains a slowdown we never diagnosed.
Read more14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agents
On September 3, 2026, Cursor let you swap its own cloud-agent infrastructure for eight other backends, including Vercel Sandbox. That's not a partnership announcement. It's Cursor telling you where its moat actually is.
Read more14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
api-design
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering API design and idempotency with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more13 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
ai
It's not about which model scores higher. It's about which one still gets the job done when you're not sitting next to it. Notes from a year of switching, paying, and betting real client work on Claude.
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