I think software as you know it is disappearing
The apps go away. The AI builds your software on the fly, and you talk to it. From then on, everything runs on one question: whose model is smarter?
03 Jul 2026 · 11 min · ai, agents, product
Musings
Long-form thinking. Code, agents, and shipping in production.
Giving agents real hands
A fleet of thirteen small servers that give agents real hands. What they wrap, the two house styles I build them in, and why they all start read-only.
28 Jun 2026 · 3 min · agents, mcp, typescript, architecture
Small tool surfaces beat fat APIs
A marketing API exposes 115 operations; my server hands the agent six tools. The boundary is set by token budget and model focus, not REST purity.
22 Jun 2026 · 3 min · mcp, agents, architecture
One voice note, five diaries
In NutriM8 you can mumble your whole day into your phone once. A background worker untangles it into sleep, weight, exercise, hydration and food, and resolves "a snack after lunch" to a real timestamp.
22 Jun 2026 · 3 min · ai, voice, product, architecture
Voice that never leaves the device
Transcription, diarisation, and speech running entirely on Apple silicon, and why keeping voice local is a product decision before it is a technical one.
22 Jun 2026 · 3 min · ai, voice, local-models, native
Guardrails for agents in production
A catalogue of the guards I actually ship: typed confirmations, blast-radius escalation, pay-to-play gating, ordered workflows, and read-only by default.
18 Jun 2026 · 3 min · agents, mcp, devops, architecture
Why I still bet on Parse Server
The backend everyone wrote off years ago is the one I keep reaching for, because boring infrastructure is the kind that ships products.
16 Jun 2026 · 2 min · parse, architecture, product
An LLM agent as an ETL pipeline
Nikis needed a clean dataset of kids' holiday activities across NSW. So I pointed an agent at the open web and made it behave like infrastructure: typed, checkpointed, and capped.
15 Jun 2026 · 4 min · ai, agents, data, typescript
Who, what, when: why I stopped trusting one diarization pipeline
Diarization is three questions wearing one coat. Split them into specialists, never merge across a turn, and the failures stop hiding inside each other.
14 Jun 2026 · 3 min · voice, ai, local-models, architecture
Mastery that forgets on purpose
Lumen8 scores a student's mastery from 0 to 400 and then lets it decay every night. Here is why decaying toward a floor beats resetting to zero.
12 Jun 2026 · 2 min · product, data, architecture
One developer, ten platforms
Why I run everything as Dockerized TypeScript in one repo, and how that lets a single person ship more surface area than a small team.
10 Jun 2026 · 3 min · monorepo, typescript, devops, architecture
MLX or CoreML? Both, and here is the table
A 600M-parameter local model beats Whisper Large v3 on a Mac. The backend choice is per-model, decided by latency and memory and GPU contention, not ideology.
10 Jun 2026 · 4 min · local-models, performance, native, ai
Shipping a legal marketplace solo
Stumble is a real two-sided marketplace for court coverage: ten packages, five services, Stripe payouts, offline mobile sync. Here is what one developer building all of that actually looks like.
09 Jun 2026 · 4 min · parse, monorepo, architecture, product
When the bug is not a styling bug
Most software fails politely. Some of it does not, and that changes how you build.
08 Jun 2026 · 2 min · product, data, architecture