IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
15 articles
11 Jun 2026 · 12 min read
agentic-ai
How to design a Hermes Agent coding workflow that learns your codebase, accumulates reusable patterns, and accelerates feature development over time.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 9 min read
agentic-ai
Step-by-step installation guide for Hermes Agent — from prerequisites to first skill creation, with troubleshooting tips and production-ready configuration examples.
Read more06 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
AI coding
Is your Claude Code token usage insanely high? The culprit might be your architecture. Learn how DRY principles and clear system design slash AI token costs.
Read more05 Mar 2026 · 10 min read
career
A mock system design interview between two tech leads. Learn the framework, the mistakes, and the thinking process that interviewers actually look for — in plain conversational English.
Read more26 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
english-learning
A casual conversation about system design at scale. Load balancing, caching, CDNs, and database sharding — explained with pizza delivery analogies you'll actually remember.
Read more22 Feb 2026 · 5 min read
adr
Part 4 of 12 — How AI transforms the Solution Architect role: AI-assisted architecture diagramming, ADR generation, trade-off analysis, technology selection rationale, and the architectural taste that only experience provides.
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