Design Philosophy: Tadao Ando, Concrete, Light, and the Void
Tadao Ando taught himself architecture from books, boxed professionally, then built the most spiritual spaces of the 20th century in concrete and light.
Design & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Every Hook Is a Scar: 84 Agent Failures Encoded in Code
84 hooks intercept 15 of the 26 lifecycle event types Claude Code exposes. Each one traces back to a specific production failure: wiped caches, leaked credentials, phantom tests.
AI & TechnologyThe Agent Didn't Get Smarter — The Project Did
The model is the same between session 1 and session 500. The project changed. This reframes the entire AI productivity conversation.
AI & TechnologyThe Handoff Document: Agent Memory Across Sessions
A diagnosis survived three corrections over four days and guided a fix that cut page load from 14s to 108ms. Handoffs carry context agents cannot.
AI & TechnologyTaste Is Infrastructure: Encoding Aesthetic Judgment for AI
Agents have capability without opinion. The quality ceiling depends on how well you encode aesthetic judgment into hooks, gates, and constraints.
AI & TechnologyQuality Is the Only Variable When AI Agents Build
Time, cost, resources, and effort are not constraints. The question is what's right, not what's efficient. A philosophy for building with AI agents.
AI & TechnologyThe Fork Bomb Saved Us
The LiteLLM attacker made one implementation mistake. That mistake was the only reason 47,000 installs got caught in 46 minutes.
AI & TechnologyWhat I Run Before I Sleep: 15,000 Pages Every Night
Every night: 15,000 pages checked, TTFB measured, cache verified, sitemaps crawled. The goodnight routine is where operational discipline lives.
AI & TechnologySeventeen Thousand Signals
My vault has 17,900 signals from arXiv, Semantic Scholar, HN, NVD, and 9 other sources. Most are noise. The noise taught me what signal looks like.
AI & TechnologyOvernight: Why My Site Is Busier at 3am Than at 3pm
Googlebot crawls 21,000 pages overnight, Bingbot crawls 10,000, and my nightcheck grinds through 15,000. Bot traffic exceeds all human visitors combined.
AI & TechnologyThe Evidence Gate: Proof Over Plausibility in AI Output
\"I believe\" and \"it should\" are not evidence. Every agent completion report needs a file path, test output, or specific code before marking work done.
AI & TechnologyCompound Context: Why AI Projects Improve Over Time
Every problem you solve with an AI agent deposits context that the next session withdraws with interest. This is context compounding.
AI & TechnologyExternal Publications
Technical writing at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.