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Writing

Notes on AI infrastructure and distributed systems, from production, not from a whiteboard.

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  • 3 min read

    An agent calls a tool. Who, exactly, is asking?

    The hardest part of agent infrastructure isn't the models, it's keeping track of who a request belongs to as it hops between agents and tools that would all rather forget.

    • ai-agents
    • identity
    • security
  • 2 min read

    Boring decisions age well

    Eight years in, the most senior skill I can point to isn't a technology. It's knowing when not to be interesting.

    • engineering-judgement
    • career
  • 1 min read

    Why this site has a blog

    What I plan to write about here, infrastructure for AI agents, distributed systems, and the lessons that only show up in production.

    • meta
    • writing

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