IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
917 articles
26 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering software architecture and scalability with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
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agent tools
A 'bot' in an agent platform isn't a monolith. It's a small tool plus a persona that knows when to call it. Using my Grok image generator as the worked example: the tool-vs-MCP decision, the function schema that doubles as a prompt, the tool loop, and turning a tool into a bot.
Read more26 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Ollama v0.33.0 shipped a UI-driven gateway that lets Claude Desktop run Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi models locally — no MCP server, no Anthropic feature, entirely Ollama's own proxy. Here's how it works, the tradeoffs in tokens/sec and tool-calling reliability, and when it's worth flipping on for a team.
Read more26 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Docker shipped microVM-isolated sandboxes that plug directly into GitHub Agentic Workflows, giving AI coding agents a full private Docker daemon and sudo without touching your runner's secrets or host. Here's the architecture, a working YAML example, and where the rough edges still are.
Read more26 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agentic engineering
A one-line prompt tweak can silently break an agent, and you won't notice until a user does. My fix is an eval harness: a golden set of inputs and checks, run against every agent and workflow on every change. Here's the anatomy — deterministic checks, LLM-as-judge, run-on-change regression, and grading multi-agent workflows.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai
GLM-5.3 just jumped from 4.6 to 28.3 on Terminal-Bench 3.0 at a fraction of frontier pricing. Here's the routing architecture we actually shipped to stop overpaying for tasks that don't need it.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-ml
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, and grounding vocabulary — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agent architecture
I already run a self-hosted autonomous engineer. When I wanted Cursor's cloud agents too, I didn't pick one — I made the executor swappable. Here's the integration architecture that turns any hosted coding agent into a first-class engine behind my own surface, in four small pieces.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Microsoft's new agent benchmark stopped grading transcripts and started checking database state instead. A 65% first-try success rate that collapses to 25% over 20 tries should change how technical leads think about agent reliability testing.
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