Thoughts on Engineering

Things I have learned building production AI systems and full-stack products. Written plainly, without filler.

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Engineering Perspective10 min readJun 2026

The Four Stages of AI: LLMs, Agents, Multi-Agents, and the Harness

A field note on how AI assistance for engineers actually evolves in practice: from a model that can only talk, to agents that act, to teams of agents, to the harness around all of it, and why that last layer is where the real senior engineering work has moved.

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Open Source9 min read

From a Personal Itch to an Open Source Tool: How I Built SageDesk

I noticed a gap on my own portfolio and ended up building an open source RAG-powered support widget that any Next.js or Express app can use in a few minutes.

May 2025Read

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AI Engineering7 min read

Getting Started with gemini-2.5-flash-image: A Practical Guide

A hands-on guide to image generation and compositing with gemini-2.5-flash-image including a compression trick that cuts your input token cost by 90%.

May 2025Read

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Developer Tools8 min read

MCP Servers: Giving AI Coding Assistants Real Dev Tools

How a frustrating habit of copy-pasting dev tool outputs into chat led me to build an MCP server, and what the process taught me about how AI assistants actually work.

Jan 2025Read