Notes on building systems — and the people who build them.
Essays and notes on engineering leadership, developer productivity systems, the builder’s psychology, and occasional Stoic-flavored self-interrogation.
Currently thinking about
- Delegation as identity work (not a task-routing problem)
- Productivity systems that reduce anxiety, not just increase throughput
- Stoicism applied: control vs influence, and decision-making under ambiguity
Latest essay
Why delegation feels like betrayal (and how to do it anyway)
Delegation is a loaded word. If it feels emotional, that’s because it touches identity—competence, control, and self-reliance. Here’s a model and a playbook.
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Recent notes
- • Agentic Code Reasoning
- • Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens
- • Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs
- • Quantization from the ground up | ngrok blog
- • Tutorial: Deploy Your Own MCP Brain Server (pi.ruv.io reference) · Issue #295 · ruvnet/RuVector
- • Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns
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