Writing
insights.
Reflections on AI systems, building products, and development etc.
The Intent Gap: Why the Best Coders Are Getting Outpaced by Average Engineers in 2026
The version of 2026 where the best programmer wins - NEVER HAPPENED"
Beyond the Wrapper: Why System Design & Architecture is the Highest Leverage Skill in the AI Era
The most dangerous engineer in your organization right now is not the one who doesn't understand AI. It's the one who understands AI and nothing else.
Context Rot: Why Your AI Agent Gets Dumber the Longer It Runs
After 60% context window usage, your AI agent enters the dumb zone - still confident, quietly wrong. Here's what that costs in production and how to fix it.
How FSDP sharding cut our training wall-time by 3.2×
A teardown of the sharding strategy and NCCL tuning that eliminated inter-node bandwidth as the bottleneck on a multi-node GPU cluster.
RAG is a retrieval problem until it isn't
Most RAG failures aren't embedding quality issues. They're context discipline problems — and that's a harder fix.