Notes
Sporadic. Occasionally useful. Mostly about RAG, agents, and what broke this week.
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A smarter model makes your agent more confidently wrong
The dominant agent failure mode in 2026 isn't the model — it's context debt. And a frontier model doesn't pay it down. It hides it.
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Context engineering is just RAG with a compliance layer
Everyone's declaring RAG dead and context engineering the winner. For regulated teams that's the wrong fight — the retrieval mechanism was never the hard part.
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On shipping a website in 2 hours
Last night, mid-deployment call, I built and shipped a personal website. Total time: under 2 hours. Three years ago this was a two-week project.