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Notes and essays on AI agents, infrastructure, systems, debugging, and things worth building.
2026-05-17 A quantified-self setup with one AI agent and two readouts I have a single WhatsApp thread with Hermes Agent capturing what I do every 15 minutes and what I eat. Two skills own the capture loops, write the JSON, and render two public readouts on this site. Notes on why this works now and why I'm tracking exactly two things. → 2026-04-14 Model overthinking is a control problem High thinking budgets can reduce control, especially when stale context and autonomous tool use mix together. → 2026-04-14 Skill Sync Cron The technical problem was simple: one skills repo, two laptops, five agent runtimes. The real problem was that every unstated decision gave the agent room to optimize for control instead of maintainability. → 2026-04-12 Sequented Gated Prompting with a Pi extension How I wanted one cleanup workflow after each feature, tried building a Pi extension for it, and learned that sequential gated prompting is more reliable than bundling everything into one turn. → 2026-04-12 Frontiers in Agentic Design A systems view of modern AI agents: models are only one layer; the real frontier is the harness, context, control loop, memory system, safety boundary, and orchestration around the model. → 2026-04-12 What Happened When I Tried to Coordinate Two AI Agents Over NFS A shared mount looked like the cleanest way to make two agent instances talk across machines. A 30 minute directory cache made the whole thing unreliable, and Git ended up being the simpler bus. → 2026-04-12 Vibe Coded a `watch` Command for Autonomous LLMs, and It Became My Debugging Loop Once I had LLMs editing code autonomously, I wanted a better way to watch a directory breathe in real time. Existing tools covered file events or diffs or a TUI, but not all three together. → 2026-02-22 TAO - The Prompting Pattern That Makes AI Agents Super Effective Most multi-agent failures are not intelligence failures. They are ownership failures. Territorial Agent Orchestration fixes that by making the coordinator own shared work and parallelizing only isolated slices. →
2026-04-12 What Happened When I Tried to Use S3 Like Dropbox on macOS I wanted a cheap cold-storage mount that still felt local in Finder. rclone plus FUSE-T got surprisingly close, but the mount flags matter more than most setup guides admit. → 2025-08-27 AWS Cloud Infra Gotchas You can run AWS Batch jobs as pods in your Kubernetes cluster. Pretty cool actually. As expected the AWS tutorial is reliable, you follow it step by step... → 2025-08-27 Dropbox download to your VM Handy script to download all your business from dropbox This script had to undergo a lot of iterations, it failed a lot of times after download for hours on... → 2025-08-27 Geofence validation on Google Maps JS API Note: This post reflects my 2019 exploration of geofence validation. Today, libraries like Turf.js or GEOS handle these cases more efficiently. Suppose you... → 2025-08-27 Incident - 20th Feb, 21st Feb 2017 I can write about the whole incident in detail because this was my own startup. I was the one man tech team here for about 2 years. What happened = 20th Feb... → 2025-08-27 K8s DNS fail Let the service name be ‘banana’ Let the pods be of the service ‘pineapple’ There was a rise in 502s accompanied by cannot lookup banana and interestingly... → 2025-08-27 Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka and others Kubernetes: TIL in a k8s pod when you define env vars, if you define the same env var twice, the latter one takes precendence how resource quotas work in... → 2025-08-27 WebRTC What a joy! It was a breath of fresh air when I came across the requirement of implementing live streaming. It was quite a learning curve to understand how... → 2025-08-27 When OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation Meets Python PEX, A Debugging Journey Picture this: You're tasked with implementing distributed tracing across your microservices. "Easy," you think, "OpenTelemetry has auto instrumentation!"... → 2025-08-27 cpu ram disk Disclaimer: I have found it a lil tough to translate my mental model about XYZ topic in words to juniors. I'm able to explain it to them, but I'm making up... → 2025-08-27 VPS vs VM vs Containers We often hear VPS, VM, and containers used interchangeably. They all solve the same problem - packing more workloads onto fewer machines but at different... → 2025-02-08 data store Disclaimer: I have found it a lil tough to translate my mental model about XYZ topic in words to juniors. I'm able to explain it to them, but I'm making up... → 2025-02-08 encryption, compression, encoding, hashing, checksums, and error correction Disclaimer: I have found it a lil tough to translate my mental model about XYZ topic in words to juniors. I'm able to explain it to them, but I'm making up... → 2025-02-08 networking Disclaimer: I have found it a lil tough to translate my mental model about XYZ topic in words to juniors. I'm able to explain it to them, but I'm making up... → 2023-12-09 Mac Utilities April 1, 2019 I’ll keep updating this post as I come across new stuff. The external hard drive is detected.. but won’t mount? grep for the fsck process,... →
2026-02-20 Chessmaster Grandmaster on your Mac How a nostalgia trip through Windows XP on UTM failed, why QEMU could not provide the Direct3D support Chessmaster needed, and why Whisky ended up being the actual fix. → 2025-08-27 meta, fun, random Reminder: you can just do things a new word pedagogy. which means the method of teaching something. another unrelated word tacit knowledge. knowledge that... → 2025-08-27 you can just do things There is nothing more that needs to be said. → 2025-03-03 speed is king We often underestimate the value of speed in everything we do. People are always amazed when someone does something faster. The combination of speed and... → 2025-02-08 John Von Goddamn Neumann VON GODDAMN NEUMANN https://medium.com/cantors paradise/the unparalleled genius of john von neumann 791bb9f42a2d https://medium.com/cantors paradise → 2025-02-08 2018 first marathon attempt My first marathon. Attempt. 28 07 2017. What a fail. Those words keep coming back to me. And it was, a big failure. I ran for the first 10kms, then the pain... → 2025-02-08 aging hometown (crosspost from https://thinkdeli.com/post/aging hometown 1119) Parents getting old, they are not able to do with ease what they were able to before.... → 2025-01-31 bars from seedhe maut end of 2023, start of 2024 heavily obsessed with this duo infact I only exclusively listen to their songs now they are a vibe, that I've not seen anywhere... → 2023-12-09 Ideas I cannot classify Badi badi baatein, vada paav khaatein We look for so many optimizations in our day to day lives. There are people who are hellbent on collecting advance... →