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Trajectory Lab: Scoring Structure, Not Length

I argued that the structure of an agent run beats its length. Then I built a tool to measure it, and won't ship it until the central claim is proven. Here's the build, and the gap.

11 min read

Scaffolding Over Horsepower: Subagents, Skills, Hooks, and MCP

A working developer's guide to subagents, skills, hooks, and MCP. And the discipline of adding a block only when you can name the failure it prevents.

14 min read

Design Before Code: A Discipline for AI-Assisted Engineering

When AI writes the code, the reasoning that produced it never exists anywhere except in a transient context window. A two-session pattern (a long Workshop to build the design, and a series of fresh Cold Reads to test it) moves accountability back where it belongs.

10 min read

Agentic UI: When AI Stops Talking and Starts Doing

The shift from conversational to agentic interfaces, and what it means for frontend architecture.

5 min read

The LLM Agent Debugging Problem: Building Observability from Scratch

A practical guide to debugging LLM agents, with structured logging utilities, trace visualization components, and replay infrastructure you can steal for your own projects.

25 min read

Building Private & Offline LLM-Powered Experiences: Client-Side AI Agents with Wasm

Learn how to build browser-based AI agents that run entirely on the client side using WebAssembly. This guide covers implementing a RAG system with local LLM inference for private, offline-capable applications.

16 min read