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Local Agents: Small Models, No Frameworks, One Bus
Most agent failures are scope failures — here's the minimal architecture that keeps tasks bounded, coordination simple, and the whole thing testable.…
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Brain: Teaching Claude Code to Remember What You Already Taught It
Claude Code forgets everything when a session ends. After 30 days of building and using a session-to-knowledge pipeline, here's the architecture that makes corrections stick.…
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What Is AI, Really? I Had to Explain It to My Daughter
My daughter asked me what AI is. Trying to explain it to her — simply, honestly — turned out to be harder than any technical interview I've ever done.…
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From Building to Orchestrating: The SDLC Skills That Changed How I Ship
I distilled my 8-agent SDLC framework into three skills and shipped two projects in under a week. The velocity was real. So were the failure modes.…
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StoryTime: Building a Local AI Storybook App That Never Phones Home
My daughter and I built bedtime stories together — she helps write them, local AI generates the cover images, and nothing leaves the machine. Here's how it came together.…
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