IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
919 articles
11 Jun 2026 · 11 min read
agentic-ai
How to build an automated quality control agent using Hermes — from code review automation to regression detection, test coverage analysis, and continuous quality improvement.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
communication
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering professional communication with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
agentic
Google's I/O 2026 announcements mark a shift from conversational AI to autonomous agentic systems. DiffusionGemma delivers 4x faster text generation. Gemma 4 broadens the open-weights ecosystem. And the new developer APIs signal where Google is pushing the industry next.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 9 min read
agentic-ai
How to design an effective skill tagging and retrieval architecture in Hermes Agent — taxonomy design, tag hierarchies, retrieval optimization, and real-world tagging examples.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
communication
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Noon session — communication phrases deep dive: actionable feedback, meeting language, and email templates for tech teams.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 11 min read
agentic-ai
A Tech Lead's guide to evaluating, piloting, and scaling Hermes Agent adoption across an engineering team — with ROI calculations, change management tips, and common failure modes.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 9 min read
coaching
Mentoring is one of the highest-leverage things a tech lead does — and one of the hardest to do well in a second language. The difference between giving answers and developing engineers is a specific set of phrases. Here's the English for questions that build thinking, feedback that sticks, and conversations that accelerate growth.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 9 min read
communication
Pitching a technical proposal in English isn't just about the idea — it's about structure, confidence, and handling skepticism without losing momentum. Here's a complete framework for pitching to your team or stakeholders, with scripts you can say aloud today.
Read more10 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
code review
Code review comments in English have three failure modes: too vague to act on, too harsh to receive well, or too polite to land at all. Here's the language for reviews that teach, not just judge — from how to open a review to how to handle pushback.
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