IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
904 articles
07 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
ai
Daily English practice for tech professionals: embed, vector database, and nearest neighbor search vocabulary with pronunciation and exercises.
Read more06 Oct 2026 · 9 min read
Access Control
A reference architecture for tenant isolation, document ACLs, permission revocation, and authorization tests in RAG systems.
Read more06 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
agentic-ai
A tested NanoClaw publishing workflow with draft-first writing, content fingerprints, CMS permissions and explicit review limitations.
Read more06 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
A Hacker News post about agent memory landed the same week I'd debugged a real dedup failure caused by exactly the problem it describes. I tested the fix against my own incident — here's what held up and what didn't.
Read more06 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
In August I wrote that Claude Code's Remote Control was a sync layer, not a cloud migration, and that keeping execution local was the point. This week Anthropic moved Cowork's execution to the cloud by default. Here's why both were the right call — for different products.
Read more05 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering timeout, retry, and API reliability vocabulary with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more04 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering a review of this week's top words and idioms with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering casual banter and witty small talk with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
agents
MIT and Sakana AI's SIFT framework beat the prior self-improving-agent SOTA by using a Bradley-Terry judge instead of more patches. I ran the real cost numbers — $150 and under 5 hours wall-clock for a 4.4-point jump on Polyglot.
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