Quo Vadis, Agentic Engineering?

The post highlights constraints, mechanisms, and factors influencing Agentic Engineering, emphasizing the types of bottlenecks we’re hitting and how GPU shortages are driving product changes.

April 22, 2026 · 17 min

Teaching Agentic Engineering

We observe Agentic Engineering to amplify impact of power users increasing the gap to everyone else. This post explores approaches to teaching Agentic Engineering.

April 21, 2026 · 7 min

pi-autoresearch optimization loops

The autoresearch technique promoted by Andrej Karpathy is easily accessible in the pi coding agent.

March 21, 2026 · 12 min

Cupcake: policy enforcement for AI coding agents

Cupcake enables policy enforcement for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor and OpenCode

March 14, 2026 · 6 min

The Hunter, Skeptic, Arbiter trio as an example of debate-style prompting

This post explores Hunter, Skeptic, Arbiter prompting for finding vulnerabilities in code as an example of debate-style prompting.

March 8, 2026 · 13 min

MCP Sampling

This post explores MCP sampling and illustrates how important guardrails are to protect clients against malicious servers.

February 19, 2026 · 5 min

MCP servers: what happens behind the scenes?

The codebases of MCP servers tend to be early-stage API wrappers, far away in quality from existing SDKs. Non-determinism of LLMs adds…

April 6, 2025 · 12 min

OpenTelemetry meets OpenAI: manual instrumentation

The posts explores three approaches to manual OpenTelemetry instrumentation for OpenAI calls in Langchain and LlamaIndex.

May 4, 2023 · 6 min

OpenTelemetry meets OpenAI

Using automatic instrumentation to quickly assess which APIs are called by popular Python LLM demo apps.

April 23, 2023 · 5 min

Emergency Procedures in SRE

Emergency procedures aim at stabilizing the system in a degraded state. When used properly, they result in faster incident response and …

January 24, 2023 · 5 min