Notes.

Short observations from building systems, working with AI and shipping in public.

21 entries · One idea at a time · Updated Aug 6, 2026

13

Constraints are a feature

The content pipeline behind my daughter's story brand runs on a single MacBook. Local image generation, local TTS, local orchestration. Clou...

building Jul 28, 2026 1 min read
14

Watch-only by design

para-radar collects Turkish lira yield opportunities: money market funds, deposit campaigns, daily interest accounts. It compares everything...

automation Jul 28, 2026 1 min read
15

Shadow mode first, always

I run an autonomous agent that posts market commentary to X. Before it was allowed to publish anything, it ran for weeks in shadow mode: ful...

automation Jul 28, 2026 1 min read
16

Moving 15 years of email without a gap

dogrubakar.com lived on free Yandex mail for years, until it went read-only behind a paywall. The move to Google Workspace had one hard requ...

infrastructure Jul 28, 2026 1 min read
17

One agent file, many opinions

I did not want three review agents for three CLIs. I wanted the agent I already tuned for Claude Code to run everywhere. That one constraint...

multi-agent Jul 28, 2026 1 min read
18

Score the models, but do not tell them

multi-agent's arena ends with a scoreboard: which model found real bugs, which one hallucinated, which one conceded gracefully. The design d...

multi-agent Jul 28, 2026 1 min read
19

Let the debate stop itself

The first version of multi-agent's arena ran a fixed number of rounds. Three models, four rounds, every time. Half of those rounds were thea...

multi-agent Jul 28, 2026 1 min read
20

Send the delta, not the transcript

The lazy way to move context between two coding agents is to copy the whole conversation. It is also the wrong way. A transcript is large, i...

context-bridge Jul 28, 2026 1 min read
21

Vendor session formats break silently

The worst bug in context-bridge was not in my code. Every handoff reported success and carried an empty delta. Claude Code, Codex and Grok k...

context-bridge Jul 28, 2026 1 min read