App Intents Are Apple's New API to Your App
I shipped an App Intent in Water on Feb 8, 2026. Here's what Apple Intelligence wants from third-party apps in iOS 26, and why App Intents are the contract that matters.
AI & TechnologyWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
The Cleanup Layer Is the Real AI Agent Market
Charlie Labs pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them. The AI agent market is moving from generation to proof. Cleanup is the durable layer.
AI & TechnologyThe Repo Shouldn't Get to Vote on Its Own Trust
Two Claude Code trust dialog bypass CVEs in 37 days reveal a load-order failure. One invariant fixes it: interpret no workspace byte until the path is trusted.
AI & TechnologyReward the Tool Before the Answer
AI agents fail when answers claim tool work that never happened. Four failure modes and the rule that catches them, with a tool-supervised RL parallel.
AI & TechnologyThe Steve Test: Does the Work Deserve to Exist?
Steve Test vs Jiro Test: a product framework for deciding whether work deserves to exist, holds user trust, and belongs in the whole you are building.
Career & GrowthJohn Ternus: The Builder CEO
John Ternus becomes Apple CEO on September 1, 2026. Why Tim Cook's successor signals a builder-led era for Apple hardware, AI, and design.
Career & GrowthThe Workbench I Carry
Steve Jobs's philosophy of invisible craft, operationalized: whole-widget integrity, refusal, and care inside an AI harness built on Claude Code.
AI & TechnologyMinimum Worthy Product
MVP became permission to ship weak work. Minimum Worthy Product is a different standard: ship the smallest product that earns belief.
Career & GrowthThe Agent Operator's Handbook: Supervising What You Can't See
Operating autonomous AI agents is a new discipline. Five responsibilities, a supervision stack, and an intervention framework define what operators do.
AI & TechnologyThe Design Engineer's Agent Stack
Design engineers need agent infrastructure that enforces visual consistency, typography discipline, color compliance, and taste. Here are the six components.
AI & TechnologyChat Is the Wrong Interface for AI Agents
Chat works for prompting but fails for agent operations. Six interface patterns replace the scrolling text window with real control surfaces.
AI & TechnologyTaste Is a Technical System
Taste decomposes into constraints, evaluation criteria, pattern recognition, and coherence checks. Each component maps to engineering infrastructure.
AI & TechnologyExternal Publications
Technical writing published 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.
