Series · 6 parts
The Build
Design patterns, HPC and AI infrastructure, and the architecture of agent systems.
01Part 1·Agent teams will beat human teams
Mozilla's Mythos shipped 423 security fixes in a single month after fifteen months of human-pace trickle. The bottleneck was never talent or funding — it was organisational frictio…
02Part 2·The Agent Stack Just Became a Standard — And Most Enterprises Aren't Ready
MCP and A2A now sit under the Linux Foundation, adoption is measured in billions of tool calls, and the standards war is over. The harder question — whether enterprises can govern…
03Part 3·Sunday Essay — Two Models, One Mistake: Notes on the Evaluator-Optimizer Pattern After PocketOS
The failure was never the bad command. It was the absence of a check between the command and the consequence. The evaluator-optimizer pattern is barely an idea—but it is the one st…
04Part 4·the memory wall, the interconnect wall, and the one budget line that actually moved
Seven hundred billion dollars in quarterly capex and the useful question is not the size of the number — it is which of three walls the number is actually paying down. Memory bandw…
05Part 5·Why You're Paying Twice for the Same Token
Any 2026 production agent stack without the three-layer caching pattern — engine prefix cache, API prompt cache, gateway semantic cache — is carrying a 30–60% avoidable inference b…
06Part 6·A Nervous System for Software
The full argument behind the comprehension gap. Why we cannot close it by enlarging the engineer; why both the statistical and the structural approaches hit a ceiling this decade;…