IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
22 articles
13 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai
DeepSeek open-sourced an agent harness where the model, tools, memory, and even the loop itself are swappable plugins. A hands-on look at the pattern and how to apply it to your own agent stack.
Read more10 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Meta released Muse Glimmer on Aug 10, 2026 — an Apache 2.0, 30B agentic LLM that runs on a single consumer GPU with near-zero quality loss when quantized. Here's the real architecture, benchmarks, and when it beats calling an API.
Read more07 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
NVIDIA's NOOA framework collapses the complexity of AI agent frameworks into a single Python class — methods are actions, fields are state, docstrings are prompts, type annotations are contracts. Here's what it means for teams building production agents.
Read more21 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
ai
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 just beat Claude Fable 5 on Frontend Code Arena. Here's how to evaluate any new open-weight model release as a Tech Lead — from benchmarks to real production tasks.
Read more27 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
ai
GLM-5.2 hits 81.0 on Terminal-Bench and 62.1 on SWE-bench Pro with an MIT license and 1M token context. The gap between open and closed models is closing fast — here's how tech leads should respond.
Read more12 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Google just open-sourced the first credible text diffusion model from a major lab — DiffusionGemma-26B generates 1,000+ tokens/sec by abandoning autoregressive token generation entirely. Here's how Uniform State Diffusion actually works, when this architecture matters, and what it means for building with open-weights models.
Read more18 Apr 2026 · 21 min read
ai
Everything about Qwen's voice ecosystem — Qwen3-TTS, Qwen3-ASR, Qwen3-Omni, Qwen-Agent — and step-by-step implementation of Voice Interview Agent, Language Tutor, and Voice Tutor systems with full production code.
Read more18 Apr 2026 · 12 min read
agentic-ai
A complete technical guide to building a profitable agentic AI system using only open-source tools — with retrieval, orchestration, tool use, and observability. Includes architecture diagrams and real cost analysis.
Read more18 Apr 2026 · 21 min read
ai
Everything about Qwen's voice ecosystem — Qwen3-TTS, Qwen3-ASR, Qwen3-Omni, Qwen-Agent — and step-by-step implementation of Voice Interview Agent, Language Tutor, and Voice Tutor systems with full production code.
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