IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
94 articles
09 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Anthropic documented how DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax ran 16 million fraudulent Claude queries through 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude's reasoning, tool use, and coding capabilities into their own models. This is what the attack looked like, and why it matters.
Read more08 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
ai
At Build 2026, Microsoft announced MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash — its first in-house foundation models built without OpenAI. The benchmarks are impressive, but the strategic shift is what developers should really pay attention to.
Read more26 May 2026 · 10 min read
agentic coding
Microsoft cancelled thousands of Claude Code licenses. Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. The technical reason why - and what every engineering team should do about it.
Read more09 May 2026 · 15 min read
agentic-ai
How the central question of building with AI has shifted three times in four years — from 'what should I say?' to 'what system should I build?' A deep dive into prompt engineering, context engineering, and harness engineering with architecture diagrams, decision frameworks, and production lessons for engineering leaders.
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 more18 Apr 2026 · 12 min read
agentic-ai
A complete technical guide to building a profitable agentic AI system using only open-source tools — with retrieval, orchestration, tool use, and observability. Includes architecture diagrams and real cost analysis.
Read more05 Apr 2026 · 4 min read
agents
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 crosses the human baseline on OSWorld-V with native computer-use, 1M token context, and parallel tool calling. Here's what it actually means for teams building AI systems in 2026.
Read more05 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
ai
An 8B model that fits in 1GB RAM, runs on your iPhone, and stays competitive with full-precision models. PrismML's Bonsai changes the math on edge AI deployment. Here's the technical breakdown.
Read more04 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Meta dropped Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, and Behemoth. Google fired back with Gemma 4. As a Technical Lead, here's what these releases actually mean for your teams and projects.
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