AI Tooling & Notes
Engineering notes and deep-dives on AI Tooling & Notes, with practical examples and lessons from experience.
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AI rewrites DevOps: from syntax to judgment
What AI already does better than an engineer, where the human’s value remains, and how the senior DevOps role shifts by 2026.
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A Local LLM for Coding: Not «Which» but «Where»
A review of the practical method for picking a local coding model by hardware — and where local models have a real niche while only the cloud holds the line on precision.
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The 2026 Terminal Stack Through a Linux User's Eyes: What's Portable, What's MacBook Optics
The "ultimate 2026 stack" guide is written for macOS. I review it from a Linux/Wayland chair: Ghostty versus Konsole, a strong backend, and the gaps you must fill.
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Agentic AI Security: Porting Enterprise Patterns Down to a Solo Harness
Biswas's architecture handles the identity layer well via OAuth and token exchange — but the real danger lives on the intent layer, which the article never reaches.
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Saving Tokens in Agents: What the Survey Gets Right and What It Over-sells
A map of four token-cost techniques — caching, lazy tools, routing, compaction. It buries the cache's real consequence in a footnote, while two counter-intuitive facts are worth the whole map.
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The Short Memory File Collapses at Scale: Tokens Versus Rule Precedence
Keeping the memory file tiny is right for a solo repository. But compliance rules from several organizations cannot be pinned to paths — they must be routed.
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An Obsidian Second Brain Is a Layer, Not the Agent's Whole Memory
Monteiro's zoned wiki is the right mechanism, but agent memory is a taxonomy of layers; and any layer that ingests the outside world must be scanned for injection before synthesis.
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CLAUDE.md: Contract or Layers? Where the Viral File Is Right and Where It Stops
The viral CLAUDE.md is right for the median: start flat. But compliance cannot be asked for — it must be mechanized. On what to write in the file and what to lift into the harness.
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The Harness Is the Cheap Part: Notes on Rebuilding Claude Code
A commentary on Fareed Khan's from-scratch rebuild of Claude Code — and why its central conclusion should be flipped.
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Claude Code Is a Skill: Notes on Leo Godin's Argument
Agreeing with the "LLMs are a skill" thesis and adding the experience the original left out.
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Should you still learn to code in 2026 — notes on Marina Wyss
A walk-through of her Medium piece: where she is right, where she over-simplifies, and what I would add.
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