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408 posts on AI agents, the laws and asymmetries that shape how we build, and lunch-break physics. Search, filter by tag, or start with a series.

2026

24 Jul
Stop Guessing Which Coding Agent to Use — Benchmark It on Your Own Tasks
TL;DR: Generic coding-agent leaderboards don’t tell you which model or tool fits your work at a budget you’re willing to spend. So I built a small task set that mirrors my real work and ran an open-so…
AI · CodingAgents · Kiro · AmazonBedrock
22 Jul
The Quadratic Wall: The Algorithmic Race to Beat O(n²) Attention
TL;DR: Standard self-attention costs on the order of n² in the sequence length n, in both arithmetic and the attention-score memory it materialises. Almost every long-context architecture headline of …
AI · LLMs · Attention · StateSpaceModels
20 Jul
Laws & Disorder #2 — Hyrum's Law: In the Age of Agents, Who Pays for a Broken API?
TL;DR: Hyrum’s Law says that with enough users, every observable behavior of your API becomes something someone depends on, whether you documented it or not. The implementation quietly becomes the int…
LawsAndDisorder · APIDesign · Architecture · AWSArchitecture
17 Jul
From Robot Soccer to the Agentic World Cup: Why Games Move AI Forward
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: Twenty years ago, a year-long university project group I was part of built a team of soccer-playing cube robots…
AgenticAI · MultiAgent · AmazonBedrock · AgentCore
15 Jul
Why AI Tokens Are So Expensive — and What Actually Makes Them Cheaper
TL;DR: Autoregressive LLM generation has two phases with different bottlenecks: prefill processes input positions in parallel and is usually compute-intensive, while decode produces tokens sequentiall…
AI · LLMs · AmazonBedrock · InferenceCosts
13 Jul
Laws & Disorder #1 — Conway's Law: Your Org Chart Is Your Real Architecture (and AI Is Redrawing Both)
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video, a short narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: Conway’s Law says a system’s structure ends up mirroring the communication structure of the organization …
LawsAndDisorder · Architecture · Teams · AWSArchitecture
10 Jul
Post-Quantum Crypto Is Here — What It Means on AWS
TL;DR: Post-quantum cryptography stopped being a research-paper topic. The reason to care today is “harvest-now, decrypt-later”: an adversary records your encrypted traffic now and decrypts it once a …
Security · Cryptography · PostQuantumCryptography · AWSKMS
8 Jul
How My Setup Learns While You Sleep
TL;DR: The thing that makes an agent get better over time is a loop, and the loop is the same whether you buy it or build it: capture raw interaction, consolidate it on a schedule, and keep the lesson…
AgenticAI · AgentMemory · AgentCore · Kiro
6 Jul
Compression Is Intelligence
TL;DR: Information theory says prediction and compression are the same thing measured two ways. That gives the cleanest mental model I know for what a large language model does: it is a compressor of …
AI · LLMs · MachineLearning · Intelligence
3 Jul
Your Obsidian Vault Is a Knowledge Graph
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: Tony Seale spent six months working almost entirely inside a markdown wiki wired to an LLM, and argued the most…
KnowledgeGraph · AgentMemory · Obsidian · AgenticAI