Why agent-built apps need a local-first state layer
Vibe coding is fast. You describe a product idea, ask an agent to build it, and a few minutes later...
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Approval Is Not Enough: Building a Sub‑Microsecond Runtime Governance Gate in Rust
Most AI governance systems check approval once. Then they assume the agent is still authorised to...
Define the state of our agent
Meta: Learn how to eliminate LLM hallucinations in career coaching apps using Agentic Workflows and...
I killed six of my own results in one night. That was the win
I built an AI security benchmark this week. By the end of one night I had killed six of my own...
AIClaw’s Execution Logs Just Got Easier To Read Across Languages
AIClaw already had one of the more useful operational surfaces in a self-hosted agent runtime:...
Not Every Lint Warning Is Cosmetic
How old tools improve the work of new (non)humans. I noticed this pattern while working through a...
BoxAgnts Tool System (7) — Skill Templates, Agent Proxies, and Cron Scheduling
BoxAgnts' tool system, from WASM sandbox instruction-level isolation to the Tool trait's unified...
Building Modular AI Agent Features with Pydantic AI Capabilities
If you're building AI Agents with Pydantic AI, understanding Capabilities is invaluable - it's the...
AI Coding at Scale: What Actually Works
AI Coding at Scale: What Actually Works I've been building Ethos, a personality-first AI...
The Hidden Economics of AI: What It Actually Costs to Run LLMs in Production (With Real Data)
There is an inconvenient truth the artificial intelligence industry prefers to whisper rather than...
Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Tells You Everything About Where Coding Tools Are Headed
Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Tells You Everything About Where Coding Tools Are Headed Uber...
I’ve Been Building Something Quietly. It’s Time to Talk About It.
For the past few months, I've been heads-down building something I couldn't stop thinking about. Not...
I Switched from VS Code to Cursor — Here's What Actually Changed
I used VS Code for years. Switching editors is the kind of thing I normally avoid — muscle memory is...
Long context is not AI memory: a builder playbook for reliable AI apps
Recent AI engineering signals point to a practical lesson: huge context windows help, but reliable AI apps still need context budgets, retrieval, caching, and security checks.
What an AI Agent Actually Is (Minus the Hype)
"Agent" might be the most overloaded word in AI right now. Half the tutorials make it sound like...
Building a Serverless Proxy for AI APIs: Lessons Learned
Last month, I needed to add an AI-powered chatbot to my side project. The requirement sounded simple:...
Why your AI agent ignores the rules you wrote
You wrote the rule. The agent read it. It broke the rule anyway. Here's one from a React Native...
Stop Tweaking Prompts — The Real Lever Is Context
For a long time, when an AI gave me a bad answer, my instinct was to rewrite the prompt. Add a...
The API Notebook Pattern: One File for Docs, Tests, and Agent Context
Most API workflow pain is not about sending the request. It is about everything around the...
RabbitHoles while learning AI
I was supposed to stop at LangGraph. That was the plan. Instead, the rabbit hole decided...
The Five-Layer Operating System — A Decision Framework for the AI Era
AI is not a tool race — it's a layer race. A domain-independent framework to understand where AI can and cannot replace you, and what to do about it.
The Harness is Half the Architecture. Here's the Half That's Missing.
Vivek Trivedy's 'Anatomy of an Agent Harness' is the clearest statement of how the industry thinks about AI agents. A NIST mathematical proof just demonstrated that the guardrail m...
5 AI Tools Every "Vibe Coder" Needs in Their Bookmarks (2026 Edition)
Build faster, design better, and ship like it's 2030. 21st.dev– A massive library of ready-made...
I gave 8 AI agents an island and watched a society emerge — wars, gossip, grudges, and peace
Tiny Civilization: what happens when AI agents have to live together I grew up on Age of...