Writing
Essays, analyses and puzzles: one argued claim, a sourced verdict, or an open question worked in public.
2026
- 3,016 delegations to agents: the long briefs cost the most
- Harness engineering notes from a team running agents all day
- How trust works at Dwarves: from your team to the people we call first
- Onboarding without flattening: what 9T keeps hard on purpose
- Play a quarter, wait the rest: the dead-air problem in turn-based artillery games
- The Go bet worked, then we tried to double the team
- Twenty accounts and the rich players: the economy loop behind farm-and-fight MMOs
- We stopped testing engineers on speed
- Designing Out SNAP Fraud
- Five layers to tune before you fork your agent
- Dispatch #1: UI kit workflow: bốn bước từ setup đến implement
- Dispatch #2: handoff pattern: từ ảnh chụp app đến Figma và video demo
- What the Engelberg report got right about us
- Claude Code 2.1.259 turned our Read() deny rules into a Bash tripwire
- The debug loop: make the agent measure the browser before it touches the CSS
- DeepSeek harness, dissected
- What stays valuable when anyone can build anything
- The tells
2025
- CAP breakdown
- Stagehand breakdown
- Context7 breakdown
- E2b breakdown
- Dify breakdown
- Maybe finance breakdown
- Umami breakdown
- Mem0 & Mem0-Graph breakdown
- Cline breakdown
- Ax framework breakdown
- Crawl4AI breakdown
- Zen MCP breakdown
- Better engineering
- Speed beats perfectionism in AI adaptation
- Engineers in the AI landscape: architects, tinkerers, planners, and the vibers
- Composing the future, part 1: agent basics, LangGraph and Autogen
- Composing the future, part 2: OpenAI's agent tools, MCP and fast-agent
- Composing the future, part 3: Mastra and CrewAI
- Composing the future, part 4: LlamaIndex and the framework face-off
- Composing the future, part 5: agent patterns, open problems and how to choose
- Strategic thinking behind our hiring
- Skillmaxing
- Vetting proven talents
- Client-side and agency-side
- Inefficiency arbitrage
- Append-only concept embedding log
- Build a brain that never forgets
- Data flow in Brainery
- Database design and philosophy
- MCP authorization over SSE
- Building use-cases
- Promoting raw data to insight
- Access the brainery
- Brainery architecture
- Market players