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Notes on AI engineering, agentic workflows, open source, and the developer tools I am trying to understand by building.

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ai training2026-06-29

How to Train a Small LLM Without Burning Money

You probably do not need to train a frontier model. You need a focused small model, a clean dataset, LoRA or QLoRA, and evaluation that proves it beats your baseline.

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ai workflow2026-06-26

More Context Is Making Your AI Dumber

Prompt engineering taught us how to ask. Context engineering is the next layer: deciding what the model sees, when it sees it, and what it never needs to see at all.

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agentic ai2026-06-20

Agentic Loop Engineering: The Missing Infra Layer

Everyone is talking about agent loops, but the hard part is not only prompting the loop. It is making the loop durable when restarts, crashes, deploys, retries, and real schedules enter the system.

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ai workflow2026-05-26

Your LLM Isn't Dumb. It's People-Pleasing.

Months on the rater side of LLM training taught me one thing: the model's default answer isn't its best answer — it's the answer most likely to get a thumbs-up from a tired human reviewer. Four laws to drag it out of the median.

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ai workflow2026-05-23

99% of People Are Using Claude, Codex, Gemini and GPT Like It's Still 2023

Paying $20/month and getting $2 of value. The gap between top 1% and everyone else isn't the model — it's how they drive it. Here's the playbook power users actually run.

agentic ai2026-04-19

I Built the Same AI Agent in Four Frameworks. Here's What I Learned.

I built the same news digest agent in LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and the OpenAI Agents SDK. They gave me four different rankings of the same articles. Here's why, and which one I'd ship to production.

engineering2026-03-31

I Built a Zero-Dependency Alternative to axios After the Supply Chain Attack

axios got compromised through a supply chain attack on one of its transitive dependencies. I built reqcraft, a 3kb HTTP client with zero dependencies and the same API. Here's the full story and how it works.

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engineering2026-02-22

From Idea to Database: A Practical Guide to Database Design

A 9-step process for turning messy requirements into a clean, production-ready database schema — with a full PostgreSQL example, ERD, and the common mistakes that trip up most developers.

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engineering2025-12-08

WebRTC: A Beginner's Guide to Real-Time Communication

Have you ever wondered how video calling apps like Google Meet, Zoom, or Discord work? The answer lies in WebRTC. This guide takes you from zero to understanding the full picture.