Intelligence Is Becoming Aluminum
A personal reflection on shrinking frontend roles, increasingly capable coding agents, the falling price of intelligence, and why changing careers may be changing cabins rather than finding a lifeboat.
Notes on software engineering, product thinking, and life.
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Context Engineering Is Not About Adding More Context
A large context window only defines how much a model can see. Context engineering decides what enters that window, how to compress and order it, what to isolate, and what to discard as a task grows.
From One Model Call to an Agent: How LLMs, RAG, Tools, Loops, and ReAct Fit Together
LLMs, prompts, context, RAG, tools, workflows, loops, ReAct, memory, and agents belong to different layers. This guide explains what each one does and how they fit into a working system.
How to Run Redis with Docker Compose on Ubuntu
Deploy Redis 8 on Ubuntu with Docker Compose using localhost-only access, authentication, AOF persistence, memory limits, backups, and safe upgrades.
Locks Are Not Syntax, They Are Boundaries
A practical explanation of what locks are for, when to consider them, how optimistic and pessimistic locking differ, and why local locks are not enough in distributed systems.
I Stopped Sending the Whole Book to the Model
My whole-book review feature used to send the setting, chapter plan, facts, and memories in one giant prompt. Two model calls took more than eight minutes. I replaced that request with a small, bounded agent loop that retrieves context only when it needs it.
OIDC: The Identity Boundary Behind Login
A practical introduction to OpenID Connect: what problem it solves, when it is worth using, how it fits login and payments, and how it differs from OAuth, SAML, CAS, LDAP, JWT, and passkeys.
Toolchain Performance Matters More Than Ever in the AI Era
AI coding is increasingly an agentic loop: write code, run validation, read failures, and fix again. In that loop, test, lint, and build performance directly shape engineering throughput.
The Next Step for Admin Platforms Is CLI and Skill
A reflection on why admin and configuration platforms should stop exposing their capabilities only through pages, and start turning operations into CLI commands and agent-readable skills.
gpt-image-2 Prompt Library: Technical Diagrams, Covers, and Visuals
Tested gpt-image-2 prompts for technical diagrams, infographics, editorial covers, miniature scenes, logos, and knowledge cards, organized by use case.