IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
19 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
If your team uses Claude Code for one task, Cursor for another, and Codex for a third, none of them know what the others just learned. I dug into Memmy and the cross-agent memory layer pattern, and what it actually takes to fix this in production.
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algorithms
I hosted and reviewed EinkChess, an open-source chess app built for Kindle e-readers. A look at how you write a minimax engine, an offline puzzle trainer, and a client-side app for a screen that punishes every repaint.
Read more18 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Wiz's autonomous Red Agent found a real, exploitable CI/CD vulnerability in a Snowflake repo — one that human review plus Copilot Autofix had already passed. A technical lead's take on the AI-versus-AI security shift, and why it changes your review checklist.
Read more18 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Cursor's CVSS 9.8 RCE, AWS Kiro rewriting its own MCP config, a wiped Supabase production database, a private-repo leak via GitHub Agentic Workflows — August 2026's incident roundup, distilled into what to actually change in your team's agent permissions.
Read more18 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-ml
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering inference, plus essential AI/ML vocabulary — hallucinate, fine-tune, latency, retrieval — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
Read more18 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Z.ai shipped GLM-5.3 without retraining the base model and still doubled coding and cybersecurity benchmark scores. A technical lead's read on why post-training gains matter more than model size, and what it changes about build-vs-buy on agent models.
Read more17 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 went GA with sharp benchmark gains over its preview — and API prices up to 12x higher. A Technical Lead's read on what this means for anyone who built a cost model around DeepSeek's 'race to zero' pricing.
Read more17 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agentic coding
Qwen3.8-27B ships with reasoning effort defaulted to xhigh, and it shows: a trivial SVG request burns 22,000+ reasoning tokens and 21 minutes. A Technical Lead's guide to reasoning-effort as a hidden cost knob in agent pipelines.
Read more17 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering rebase, plus essential Git workflow vocabulary — cherry-pick, stash, squash, force-push — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
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