IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
4 articles
27 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agent architecture
Grok isn't a model, it's an agent system: tools trained into the reasoning, real-time X and web search on xAI's infra, a four-agent cross-verifying architecture, long-running agents. I break down its features, architecture, and safety harness — then map each piece to a component I can build self-hosted on a subscription I already pay for.
Read more25 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agent architecture
I already run a self-hosted autonomous engineer. When I wanted Cursor's cloud agents too, I didn't pick one — I made the executor swappable. Here's the integration architecture that turns any hosted coding agent into a first-class engine behind my own surface, in four small pieces.
Read more24 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agent architecture
NVIDIA's AVO harness took Claude Opus 5 from ~30% to a perfect 100.00 RHAE on ARC-AGI-3 — without touching the model weights. A technical lead's read on why the harness, not the model, is where the next round of agent capability is coming from.
Read more18 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
agent architecture
Loop engineering isn't one technique — it's a stack of architectural patterns built up since 2022, each solving a failure mode the last one exposed. Here's the evolution, the five-stage loop cycle, the guardrails that are mandatory in production, and how to pick the right pattern for your team.
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