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Writing.

Essays and posts. Longer-form thinking built on top of the wiki.

2026-08-30

The Agentic Engineering Curriculum

A structured course on AI engineering and agentic patterns, distilled from the wiki: foundations, context, evals, verification, harnesses, and the software factory.

2026-08-28

The Linter Is the Cheapest Adult in the Room

Why Rust-speed, error-only lint gates like Oxlint are the Tier 1 backpressure layer that keeps autonomous coding loops honest — with the failure modes they mechanically close.

2026-08-27

The Agent as a Virtual OS: Inside the Codex Harness Architecture

Dissecting OpenAI's Codex harness: JSON-RPC app-server decoupling, multi-platform OS sandboxing, bounded context streams, and the lessons of production agent design.

2026-08-27

The Five Debts of Agentic Engineering

Why probabilistic coding generators accumulate intent, semantic, verification, architecture, and authorization debt—and how risk-conditioned systems keep autonomous loops releasable.

2026-08-25

Clean Architecture for Agent Harnesses

How Uncle Bob's 2012 Dependency Rule and boundary isolation principles solve the durability, containment, and testability crises in modern AI agent harnesses.

2026-08-24

Skills-Native Evaluation and Agent Adversarial Training

How evaluation methodology shipped as installable skills and GAN-inspired generator-evaluator loops are advancing AI agent reliability beyond prompt tweaks.

2026-08-24

Loop and Graph Engineering: The Dual Topologies of Agentic Systems

Why single-agent prompt loops degrade past the smart zone, and how graph orchestration provides the structural partition needed for production AI systems.

2026-08-22

Hello world

The first post on pyweb.dev

2026-08-22

Building Effective Agentic Workflows

A practitioner's architectural guide to building reliable AI coding agents: avoiding context rot, operating in the smart zone, and enforcing tight engineering loops.