IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
22 articles
28 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai
OpenAI and Broadcom taped out Jalapeño, a custom inference ASIC, in 16 months — and independent SemiAnalysis benchmarks show it beating Nvidia Blackwell on perf-per-watt. A tech lead's read on what vertical integration in AI infra means for your cost curve.
Read more28 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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AWS and Unsloth just published four production deployment patterns for quantized LLMs that cut instance costs roughly 5x. I break down which pattern fits which team, with the actual configs, and the operational traps that don't show up in the benchmark numbers.
Read more21 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloudflare shipped Identity-Aware AI Gateway and Cloudflare Wallets this month — attributing every AI API call and every agent payment to a specific identity instead of a shared key. What this replaces, and the checklist for adopting it.
Read more21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
GitHub's August 17 outage postmortem reveals commit volume doubled in four months, with AI coding agents now generating 17M PRs/month. A capacity-planning breakdown for teams running agent fleets against shared git infrastructure.
Read more12 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
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Anthropic's new self-hosted Claude Code beta lets sessions run on your own infrastructure with internal network access. Here's the rollout playbook — and the compliance gap most teams will miss: prompts still leave your network.
Read more11 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare's Kitesurf ditches Chromium entirely — Servo's layout engine, Firefox's CSS engine, and a Rust JS engine, running inside Workers V8 isolates. The real benchmarks: 3-7x less resource usage, but Chromium still wins on raw speed.
Read more04 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare's Agents Week (August 2026) redefined what AI agent infrastructure looks like at scale — introducing @cloudflare/computer as a new compute primitive, the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), and production patterns that separate agentic session management from traditional containerized workloads. Here's what it means for engineering teams building agent systems.
Read more30 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
Isolation is the easy part. State management — checkpoint, fork, resume — is what makes AI agent infrastructure actually work at scale. How Perplexity built SPACE in 10 weeks, hit 1.25M sandbox creations at launch, and cut P90 latency from 447ms to 89ms.
Read more28 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
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All four major clouds shipped agent code sandboxes in the same quarter. Four isolation architectures, four trade-off profiles. Here's the technical comparison and decision framework for Tech Leads picking the right sandbox for their AI stack.
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