§ Research, written down
What I learn, written down.
Building and studying happen at the same desk for me. I measure the things I build with, and write down what holds up: the numbers, how I got them, and the honest caveats.
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2026-09-28 · Benchmark · Immediacy
Cutting an agent’s orientation tax: −60% tokens, ~−47% time
How a shared code-context layer changes what it costs an AI coding agent to find the right files before it edits, measured on real tasks, with the method laid out.
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2026-09-26 · Engineering notes · Immediacy
Making a small model earn its keep
Running a local decision model is the easy part; knowing when to believe it is the hard part. Shadow-first decisions, a strict data diet, and a gate that only decides.
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2026-09-24 · Engineering notes · Anamanti
What happens in the house stays in the house
“Runs on your own hardware” as concrete engineering: in-process memory, private speaker ID, and a camera used as a plain motion sensor.
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2026-09-24 · Engineering notes · Immediacy
Four engines, one backpack
Packing a graph store, a code parser, a decision model and an embedder into one in-process binary, and mining git history for a ranking signal.
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2026-09-22 · Engineering notes · Anamanti
Fast thoughts and slow thoughts
A cheap reflex answers the easy requests instantly and only wakes the slow, expensive brain when a question really needs it, plus how it manages to talk sooner.
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2026-09-16 · Engineering notes · Anamanti
Good ears on cheap hardware
Getting a $100 smart display to hear you over its own voice: a hardware echo-cancellation trick, the bug where the mic lied about its speed, and an offline wake word.
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2026-06-28 · Engineering notes · Cadora
An AI you’d trust with the family calendar
Reading email without being a security hole, showing its “because” on every change, and staying cheap enough to actually run.
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2026-06-24 · Engineering notes · NextHaul
Every road leads to one funnel
Six ways to add an item, one code path, plus a list that learns your receipts, conflicts designed away, and a shared cart link that reuses itself.
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2026-06-20 · Engineering notes · Cadora
Letting the database do the worrying
CRDT-free offline sync, security the database enforces itself, and two-way calendar sync that recognizes its own echoes.
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2026-06-19 · Engineering notes · NextHaul
The backend that isn’t there
No app server at all. The database does the trusted work, two apps share one schema, invites resist abuse, and reinstalling recovers your account.
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