IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
917 articles
25 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 more24 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agent architecture
NVIDIA's AVO harness took Claude Opus 5 from ~30% to a perfect 100.00 RHAE on ARC-AGI-3 — without touching the model weights. A technical lead's read on why the harness, not the model, is where the next round of agent capability is coming from.
Read more24 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering git workflow vocabulary — rebase, merge conflicts, and code review phrases — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more24 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
A researcher chained Kimi K3, GLM-5.2, and GLM-5.3 to build a working root exploit for an unpatched Fire OS kernel vulnerability. It's a genuinely useful case study in what long-horizon, multi-model agent security research looks like right now — and what it means for anyone running EOL hardware or unattended agents.
Read more22 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Anthropic moved computer use, a new browser-use tool, the Skills API, and the Files API to general availability on August 20, 2026. A Technical Lead's read on what's now buildable in production that wasn't three months ago, with an illustrative code walkthrough.
Read more22 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
agentic coding
Rachel Laycock's framing from martinfowler.com reduces the whole agentic-software governance problem to one sentence: organisations don't run on code, they run on trust. Here's how to turn that into five concrete guardrails, and why my own overnight-task workflow is a working example of the pattern.
Read more22 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering laid-back, casual invitation phrases, and weekend small talk, with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more22 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
A capability-evaluation agent chained a package-registry zero-day into a full pivot through Hugging Face's infrastructure — 17,600 actions in 4.5 days. Docker's post-mortem breaks down why manual review can never be the primary control, and what architecture actually holds. A Technical Lead's checklist for applying it.
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