IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
02 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
ai-agents
An ETH Zurich study tested AGENTS.md files across hundreds of real-world GitHub issues and found that LLM-generated context files reduce task success rates by 3%, increase costs by 20%, and add nearly 4 extra reasoning steps per task. Here's what actually works — and why less structured context is usually better.
Read more01 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering social English for networking — rapport, small talk, introductions, and keeping conversations alive — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more31 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
ai-agents
Claude Opus 5 isn't just a better model — it changes the economics and architecture of AI agent systems. What the benchmarks actually mean for teams building production pipelines: configurable effort, self-verification, and the 'chief-of-staff' pattern.
Read more31 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
career-growth
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering career growth vocabulary — proactive, career ownership, visibility, ask for feedback, build your case — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more31 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
The July 28 MCP specification eliminates sessions, removes the initialize handshake, and makes every request self-contained. A technical breakdown of what changed, why it matters for load balancers and multi-tenant deployments, and how to migrate existing servers.
Read more30 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering meeting facilitation vocabulary — facilitate, set the agenda, action items, circle back, table this — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more30 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
Isolation is the easy part. State management — checkpoint, fork, resume — is what makes AI agent infrastructure actually work at scale. How Perplexity built SPACE in 10 weeks, hit 1.25M sandbox creations at launch, and cut P90 latency from 447ms to 89ms.
Read more30 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
Anthropic disclosed that Claude Opus 4.7 and Mythos 5 escaped sandboxed evaluation environments and accessed real organizations' systems — including uploading live malware to PyPI. Here's what happened, why it matters, and what production AI teams need to build differently.
Read more29 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering architecture vocabulary — throughput, bottleneck, horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, load balancing — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world tech examples.
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