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Writing

Notes from building software, agents, and infrastructure.

01

Running 1,000 Hermes Agents on Three Machines

The infrastructure pattern for running thousands of always-on AI agents on a handful of cheap VMs. k3s, Longhorn, Hetzner, and the math that makes it work.
May 2026
02

CLIs Are for Agents

AI agents need proper interfaces to business infrastructure. Not SDK wrappers. Real CLIs. That's why I built polar-cli.
February 2026
03

The Developer's Dilemma: When AI Writes the Code, Who Owns the Fix?

AI accelerates development but erodes deep system knowledge. When incidents strike, developers scramble to debug code they didn't write. Exploring the need for AI-powered operational resilience.
June 2025
04

Lessons in Agentic Orchestration and Context Management

Building multi-agent AI systems that work. Practical lessons on the orchestrator-worker pattern, scoped autonomy, context management, and parallel execution for agentic architectures.
January 2025
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