IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
agents
MIT and Sakana AI's SIFT framework beat the prior self-improving-agent SOTA by using a Bradley-Terry judge instead of more patches. I ran the real cost numbers — $150 and under 5 hours wall-clock for a 4.4-point jump on Polyglot.
Read more03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
ai
Xiaomi's new open-weight model tops Terminal-Bench 2.1 at 89.9% and jumps from 19.0 to 71.9 on DeepSWE. Before you get excited about MIT licensing, here's what 1.02T total params vs. 42B active params actually costs you in hardware.
Read more03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering casual banter and witty small talk with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
agents
Part 2 of the AI agent architecture series: a real MCP server, a real LangGraph graph, and the actual bug — a blog-dedup agent that catches exact-match duplicates fine and faceplants on the semantic case, with a 401 to prove it.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
agentic coding
Anthropic shipped a TypeScript hook API for Claude Code — prompt.submit, tool.call, turn.complete. I wired up a cost-tracking mod in twenty minutes and it broke in a way that taught me more than the docs did.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
career-growth
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering how to talk numbers in a salary or promotion negotiation with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 7 min read
agents
A forwarded LinkedIn post about the three layers of AI agent architecture gets the shape right and the substance wrong. What MCP, A2A, ACP, and ANP actually are today, which one already died, and what a real multi-agent system looks like when someone publishes the actual numbers.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
agent-safety
OpenShell runs on Vera CPUs, Sentry watches from BlueField-4 DPUs — NVIDIA's new stack puts agent guardrails in hardware, not just prompts. Here's what that buys you and where it still isn't enough.
Read more01 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering how to frame a proposal, walk people through trade-offs, and land on a decision with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
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