IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
26 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering software architecture and scalability with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agent architecture
I already run a self-hosted autonomous engineer. When I wanted Cursor's cloud agents too, I didn't pick one — I made the executor swappable. Here's the integration architecture that turns any hosted coding agent into a first-class engine behind my own surface, in four small pieces.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Microsoft's new agent benchmark stopped grading transcripts and started checking database state instead. A 65% first-try success rate that collapses to 25% over 20 tries should change how technical leads think about agent reliability testing.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-ml
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, and grounding vocabulary — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agent-training
Microsoft's new RL framework decouples agent execution from model training entirely, so you can add reinforcement learning to a LangChain or AutoGen agent with close to zero code changes. Here's the architecture, the numbers, and where it actually fits.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Anthropic logged its 166th outage of 2026 this week, the sixth in August alone. If your product has an LLM call on the critical path, here's the resilience architecture that actually survives that.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai
GLM-5.3 just jumped from 4.6 to 28.3 on Terminal-Bench 3.0 at a fraction of frontier pricing. Here's the routing architecture we actually shipped to stop overpaying for tasks that don't need it.
Read more24 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering git workflow vocabulary — rebase, merge conflicts, and code review phrases — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more24 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
A researcher chained Kimi K3, GLM-5.2, and GLM-5.3 to build a working root exploit for an unpatched Fire OS kernel vulnerability. It's a genuinely useful case study in what long-horizon, multi-model agent security research looks like right now — and what it means for anyone running EOL hardware or unattended agents.
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