IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
279 articles
03 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
2026
Alibaba just released its third proprietary model in days. Google's Gemini Flash-Lite costs $0.25 per million tokens. NVIDIA's Nemotron runs 2.2x faster than GPT-OSS-120B. The LLM cost war has arrived — here's what it means for architects choosing AI infrastructure in 2026.
Read more01 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
agentic-ai
GPT-5.4 crossed human performance on desktop tasks. With a hosted shell, 1M context window, and native compaction, the era of AI as an autonomous coworker is finally here — and the implications for developers are profound.
Read more01 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
2026
This week's top reads for Tech Leads & Engineers: the AI coding tools war heats up, Stripe's autonomous agents ship 1,300 PRs/week, software supply chain becomes the #1 attack vector, and engineering leadership rethinks itself.
Read more01 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
a2a
The A2A protocol under the Linux Foundation is quietly becoming the HTTP of the agentic era. Here's what it means for enterprise architects, why it matters more than another model release, and how to think about it from a systems design perspective.
Read more31 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Anthropic acquired Bun in December 2025. OpenAI acquired Astral (uv, Ruff) in March 2026. The AI model war has a new front: owning the developer toolchain. Here's what this arms race means for how you build software.
Read more31 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Apple just committed $1 billion per year to run Google Gemini inside Siri. As a Technical Lead who builds on Apple's platform, here's what I think this means beyond the headlines — privacy tradeoffs, WWDC expectations, and what APIs you should be watching.
Read more30 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
agentic-ai
Cursor's March 2026 release brings parallel subagents, BugBot Autofix, and cloud agents — a genuine shift from AI coding assistant to AI workflow engine. Here's what it means for real teams.
Read more30 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
ai
The CNCF just made Dapr Agents v1.0 generally available. After years of AI agent frameworks focused on intelligence, here's one that focuses on survival — durable workflows, state management, and production-grade reliability on Kubernetes.
Read more29 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
agents
The Model Context Protocol crossed 10,000 published servers under the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation. As someone who's integrated dozens of AI systems, here's why this number matters more than any benchmark.
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