IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
155 articles
13 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai
DeepSeek open-sourced an agent harness where the model, tools, memory, and even the loop itself are swappable plugins. A hands-on look at the pattern and how to apply it to your own agent stack.
Read more12 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering backpressure, dead letter queue, control plane, canary deployment, and tail latency with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more06 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
ai-cost
OpenAI just cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and Terra by 20%. Combined with 15% better token efficiency from speculative decoding, the cost math for AI products has fundamentally shifted. Here's how to rethink your model routing strategy and capture the savings without sacrificing quality where it matters.
Read more05 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering bulkhead, blast radius, circuit breaker, idempotent, and throughput — the reliability pattern vocabulary every backend engineer needs to discuss system design in English with confidence.
Read more05 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
APIs designed for human developers fail in predictable ways when AI agents consume them. After shipping several agent-integrated systems in production, here are the concrete patterns — idempotency, rich errors, context anchors, and MCP alignment — that determine whether your API is agent-ready or a liability.
Read more02 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
ai-agents
A Stanford, SambaNova, and UC Berkeley paper introduces Agentic Context Engineering (ACE) — a Generator-Reflector-Curator split that delivers +10.6% improvement on agent tasks and +8.6% on finance tasks, without any gradient updates. Here's what the architecture means for teams building production AI agents.
Read more02 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
ai-agents
After PocketOS lost their production database in 9 seconds to a Cursor agent, and Replit destroyed 1,200+ executive records, the industry has enough post-mortems to see patterns. Here are the 7 failure classes, what each looks like in the logs, and concrete guardrail architecture for each.
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 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.
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