IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
48 articles
22 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
ai-agents
CNCF's July 2026 paper makes the case that Kubernetes is the natural convergence platform for AI agents. Here's why they're correct — and how to run AI agents on Kubernetes today with proper isolation, policy enforcement, and observability.
Read more21 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Devin, GitHub Copilot Workspace, Augment Code — AI coding agents are shifting from individual dev tools to shared team infrastructure. Here's what Tech Leads must do now to stay ahead.
Read more25 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
agents
As AI agents replace human workflows, your observability stack must evolve. A practical guide to tracing LLM calls, multi-agent chains, and tool use with OpenTelemetry — from a Tech Lead who's been there.
Read more20 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
agents
A practical guide to building an AI-powered monitoring dashboard that shows EC2 health, web platform status, CI/CD quality checks, and uses Claude to interpret anomalies in plain English.
Read more28 May 2026 · 15 min read
cloudflare-tunnel
Build and operate a mini PC homelab with workload boundaries, tested application recovery, monitoring and a practical incident runbook.
Read more18 May 2026 · 11 min read
ai
A practical guide to running parallel AI coding agents using Claude as a manager, MiniMax and Kimi as workers, Linear as the task pool, and tmux as the control room. No frameworks — just shell scripts, lock files, and clear task specs.
Read more28 Apr 2026 · 10 min read
ai
A deep dive into building a local LLM API server on an RTX 3060. Ollama + FastAPI + Cloudflare Tunnel. 6 layers of security, real benchmarks, and hard-won lessons.
Read more20 Apr 2026 · 15 min read
ai
Part 8 of 12 — Build the Tech Lead (code review), DevOps (CI/CD generation), and PM (coordination) agents.
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.
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