IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
28 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai
If your team's model pipeline touches the Hugging Face Hub, Inference Endpoints, or Transformers, a hardware company owning your model registry changes the risk calculus. A practical audit for what to check before this deal closes.
Read more27 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
agentic coding
SpaceXAI's Think Fast 2.0 merges speech recognition, reasoning, and synthesis into a single speech-to-speech model over one WebSocket. I built a customer-support voice agent against it and pulled out the production best practices that actually matter: timing, interruption, resumption, and security.
Read more27 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agentic engineering
I self-hosted an agent platform on hardware I already own. The models were never the hard part. The hard part was the playbook: the exact combinations of engine, tools, and surface that turn one platform into a coder, a researcher, a QA gate, and a business analyst. Here are the five I actually run.
Read more27 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agent architecture
Grok isn't a model, it's an agent system: tools trained into the reasoning, real-time X and web search on xAI's infra, a four-agent cross-verifying architecture, long-running agents. I break down its features, architecture, and safety harness — then map each piece to a component I can build self-hosted on a subscription I already pay for.
Read more27 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering facilitate, agenda, action item, chime in, and wrap up with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more26 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Ollama v0.33.0 shipped a UI-driven gateway that lets Claude Desktop run Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi models locally — no MCP server, no Anthropic feature, entirely Ollama's own proxy. Here's how it works, the tradeoffs in tokens/sec and tool-calling reliability, and when it's worth flipping on for a team.
Read more26 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Docker shipped microVM-isolated sandboxes that plug directly into GitHub Agentic Workflows, giving AI coding agents a full private Docker daemon and sudo without touching your runner's secrets or host. Here's the architecture, a working YAML example, and where the rough edges still are.
Read more26 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agentic engineering
A one-line prompt tweak can silently break an agent, and you won't notice until a user does. My fix is an eval harness: a golden set of inputs and checks, run against every agent and workflow on every change. Here's the anatomy — deterministic checks, LLM-as-judge, run-on-change regression, and grading multi-agent workflows.
Read more26 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agent tools
A 'bot' in an agent platform isn't a monolith. It's a small tool plus a persona that knows when to call it. Using my Grok image generator as the worked example: the tool-vs-MCP decision, the function schema that doubles as a prompt, the tool loop, and turning a tool into a bot.
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