I think about and work on real-time distributed systems. I write about what worked, what didn't, and the numbers behind both.

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I built 140 tools for work that never was

Six months of letting a coding agent propose its own tooling produced 140 custom skills across twelve repositories. Most of them have never run.

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Usage in all areas of our everyday life. What changes when an agent becomes the daily driver. Throughput, cycle time, change-failure rate — with their caveats.

📺 Real-time streaming platforms

Real-time quality analysis of video streams. Event-time semantics, the consistency boundary, the bugs that don't show up until production.

⚖️ Engineering judgment

Build vs buy, instrument-before-you-rollout, when to defer. The decisions that don't make it into postmortems but should.

📐 Architecture & infrastructure

Terraform at a startup, schema evolution, the database choices you regret six months later.

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