A working notebook — essays, benchmarks, playbooks.
No newsletter copywriting. Just things we've shipped, broken, or are thinking through.
What we actually measured on 128GB Strix Halo
Real throughput numbers from our own Strix Halo box, not a coding-task benchmark. The gfx1151 ROCm hang that pushed us to Vulkan was scoped to one model family and closed a month later — ROCm runs several of our profiles today.
Distributing AI skills as OCI artifacts
Containers solved software distribution. What if operational AI skills were distributed the same way — signed, versioned, and admission-controlled?
Proctor / Coder / Reviewer: an autonomous coding pipeline that works
The architecture behind harness-go. NATS JetStream, BadgerDB + Bleve, and hot-reload policy via atomic pointer swap.
The quiet death of the shared Kubernetes cluster
Multi-tenancy was a compromise. vCluster, CAPI, and better tooling have made the compromise unnecessary — and kept blast radius small.
Three bad Backstage habits and what to do instead
The IDP has a weight problem. Here is what we see break in every implementation and how to avoid it.
eBPF, Cilium, and the end of the iptables era
Why every greenfield cluster we ship in 2026 starts with Cilium and Hubble, and what we are seeing at migration.