AI Engineering
Cut Your AI Coding Bill With Model Routing
Most agent tokens aren't thinking — they're I/O. Here's a free local setup that routes grunt work to cheap models.
September 13, 2026 · 12 min read · AI Agents · Agentic Systems
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Practical notes on building the systems behind intelligent software.
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AI Agents
Building a Private Local AI Agent with Ollama
A 400-line agent with no framework: local inference, jailed tools, and the four real bugs that evals caught.
September 13, 2026 · 15 min read · AI Agents · Ollama
Knowledge Graphs
What Is a Knowledge Graph?
Entities, relations, and why structured knowledge grounds AI systems that vectors alone can't.
September 12, 2026 · 9 min read · Knowledge Graphs · RAG
Agentic Systems
Harness Engineering: The Discipline Behind Reliable Agents
The model proposes, the harness disposes — budgets, tools, evals, and the loop that makes agents production-worthy.
September 12, 2026 · 11 min read · Agentic Systems · AI Agents
Context Engineering
Context Engines: The System That Feeds the Model
From scattered sources to one assembled, budgeted, trustworthy context — how to build the engine.
September 12, 2026 · 10 min read · Context Engineering · RAG
AI Agents
AI Agents Are Becoming Software Systems
Why building reliable agents requires systems engineering, not just prompting.
September 12, 2026 · 12 min read · AI Agents · Agentic Systems
Context Engineering
Context Engineering: The Missing Layer in AI Applications
Prompts don't scale. A context pipeline does — here's how to design one.
September 10, 2026 · 10 min read · Context Engineering · RAG
RAG
RAG Is a Retrieval Problem Before It Is an LLM Problem
Most RAG failures come from chunking and ranking — not the generator.
September 8, 2026 · 9 min read · RAG · Vector Databases
Knowledge Graphs
Vector Databases vs Knowledge Graphs
Similarity and structure solve different problems — production AI needs both.
September 5, 2026 · 11 min read · Knowledge Graphs · Vector Databases
LLM Inference
Understanding LLM Inference
Batching, KV-cache, quantization, and why time-to-first-token matters.
September 2, 2026 · 10 min read · LLM Inference · Model Serving
Agentic Systems
Designing Reliable Agentic Workflows
Deterministic scaffolding around nondeterministic models — patterns that hold up.
August 28, 2026 · 11 min read · Agentic Systems · AI Agents
AI System Design
From Prototype to Production: AI System Design
The unglamorous checklist between a working demo and a system you can operate.
August 22, 2026 · 12 min read · AI System Design · Production AI
AI Engineering
What Software Engineers Need to Know About AI Engineering
Your existing engineering judgment transfers — here's the new layer on top.
August 15, 2026 · 8 min read · AI Engineering · Software Architecture