IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
03 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
McKinsey's State of AI 2026 survey found a third of organizations skipped a software purchase because agentic coding could build it in-house — but the share reporting real EBIT impact from AI didn't move. What that gap actually means for a build-vs-buy call, from someone who's made a few of them this year.
Read more03 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
communication
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering the language of explaining ideas in more depth — elaborate, walk through, break it down — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more03 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
JetStream shipped Clearance this week — a reasoning engine that authorizes every agent tool call against a versioned policy before it runs, not after. Here's how it differs from network-layer MCP detection, and what I'm taking from it for my own agent gateway.
Read more03 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
architecture
Reviewing a legacy OTT analytics platform produced about 60 concrete problems. Each one turned into a design rule for KidsLen. This is the what-not-to-build post.
Read more03 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Google split Gemini 3.8 Flash into a general workhorse and a gated Cyber variant that finds vulnerabilities and writes patches autonomously. A Tech Lead's take on what changes when the same model does discovery and remediation — and why the patch review step just became your real bottleneck.
Read more02 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering the words engineers use to control traffic and protect systems under load — throttle, rate limit, saturate, gracefully degrade, spike — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
Read more02 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Anthropic didn't touch Fable 5.1's per-token price — it cut cache-read cost by 75%. That's not a discount, it's a signal about which architecture pattern the platform now rewards. Here's how I re-cut my prompt structure around it.
Read more02 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Coder's new Agent Relay lets Cursor's cloud agents execute inside a customer's own network, with SpaceXAI as launch partner. A look at what this self-hosted execution pattern actually solves, and what it doesn't.
Read more01 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
ai-ml
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering the words you need to talk about running and shrinking AI models in production — quantize, throughput, checkpoint, overfit, multimodal — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
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