• Pi and Hermes Are Trying to Solve Different Problems

  I went looking for a talk from Mario Zechner, the creator of Pi, because I wanted to understand why someone would build another coding agent when we already have a pile of them. I found: a talk called “Building pi in a World of Slop.” …

• Don't Build a Full Agentic Harness. Wrap One Instead.

  I keep seeing people talk about building an “Agentic OS”. A personal system where agents get tools, memory, sub-agents, long-running tasks, permissions, and maybe a little dashboard with colored dots so you know the robots are thinking. I …

• Your Coding Agent Should Not Own Your Editor

  Every coding agent wants to become the place where you work. It starts life as a command-line tool. Then it grows a chat interface, a diff viewer, a permission system, a terminal, a model picker, and eventually an editor integration. …

• Graphify Turns Your Repos Into a Map You Can Query

  Navigating code dependencies inside a single repository is already hard enough. But if you’re on a microservice setup, or a split frontend and backend, tracking what depends on what across multiple repos is a special kind of misery. A …

• What Are Embeddings, Really? (And Why You Can't Just Use GPT-4 to Make Them)

  If you’ve built a RAG pipeline, a semantic search box, or an AI agent with vector-backed memory, you’ve used embeddings. You probably called a Mistral or Gemini embedding endpoint, took the array of floats that came back, dumped it into …

• Why Your AI Stack Needs a Gateway

  Picture an autonomous agent loop dying at step 45 of a plan it’s been grinding through for the better part of an hour. Not because the plan was wrong. Because OpenAI handed back an HTTP 429 at exactly the wrong moment, and the whole thing …

• Autopilot for Your Docs: A Look at LangChain's OpenWiki

  Writing documentation for a repo is the chore nobody volunteers for. Keeping it current is somehow worse. You refactor one service or change a database schema, and the architecture overview you wrote three months ago is instantly a lie. So …

• Amnesia-Free Agents: GBrain and the LLM Wiki Idea

  Every agent I work with has amnesia. Open a new terminal session, spin up a subagent, start a fresh chat, and the thing forgets everything. Your project guidelines, your coding style, your database schemas, the meeting where you decided why …

• Julia: High-Performance Computing Without the Two-Language Tax

  I hadn’t heard of Julia until someone posted about it on Bluesky. The language was new to me, so I went reading, and this post is a summary of what stood out. Fair warning: I haven’t written any Julia myself yet. The thing Julia is built to …

• Adding Types to JSON with Dhall

  A few months ago I wrote a post asking whether there’s something better than JSON. Two configuration languages that sit above JSON kept coming up: CUE and Dhall. Both give you the things JSON lacks when you author config by hand, and both …