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Retrospective · September 1, 2026

Development Experience vs. AI Experience, Seen While Training New Developers

Helping with AI training for junior developers led me to reflect on hands-on experience, the responsibility to check results, and connecting AI use with people’s work.

Retrospective · July 29, 2026

Agreeing on How We Develop Before Bringing AI Agents into the Team

Applying AlgoSu’s AI agent practices to PinLog started with aligning people: making assumptions explicit and agreeing on structure, conventions, and ownership.

Engineering · July 29, 2026

Runtime Contracts and Infrastructure Ownership Boundaries for Deployment

Runtime contracts, infrastructure ownership, and the gap between passing checks and deploying: a look back at PinLog’s July 2026 records.

AI Agents · July 22, 2026

Separating an Operations AI’s Memory from Actual Server State

Separating observations, contracts, evidence, and query views when using Pico’s memory for operational decisions.

Engineering · July 22, 2026

PVC Retention Policies and Data Recovery Limits on Single-Node k3s

Looking at local-path and local-path-retain on a single-node k3s cluster, I separated three questions: Pod restarts, PVC deletion, and recovery after losing the node.

Engineering · July 21, 2026

An External Monitoring Path That Works Even When the Node Fails

Internal alerts cannot watch over the complete failure of the node they run on. How PinLog separates internal monitoring from external HTTPS/TLS checks, and what that separation does not solve.

AI Agents · July 21, 2026

AI Processing of Incident Alerts, with Output Verified by Code

PinLog's Sentinel uses Hermes to process alert payloads, while trusted code revalidates mentions, URLs, and the final format. Critical, Warning, and RESOLVED policies, plus a closing one-line summary, make that division of responsibility concrete.

Retrospective · June 21, 2026

An AX Training Assistant’s Retrospective on Using AI After Training

Supporting corporate AX training led me to reflect on what helps people return to AI in their own work after the class ends.

AI Agents · June 12, 2026

Building a Personal Knowledge Assistant on Hermes

Introducing Hermes Agent to a personal knowledge store inspired by LLM Wiki: preserving existing knowledge and role boundaries while connecting retrieval, validation, and delegation.

Retrospective · June 10, 2026

Safely Removing the AlgoSu Blog’s Relation Graph and Search

Deleting a feature is scarier than adding one. You never know what else might break. Removing the decision-record (ADR) relationship graph and search from AlgoSu's blog taught me that safe deletion is a craft with its own method.

AI Agents · June 10, 2026

When to Bring In a High-End AI Model (Fable 5)

I switched to Fable 5, a new high-end model, the day it launched. Six sprints later, what I'd gained wasn't performance but strategy. A record of when to reach for a premium model, and why that judgment is the same thing as paying down technical debt.

Retrospective · May 22, 2026

Separating Markdown Decision Records for AI from HTML Versions for People

What I learned by splitting decision records (ADRs) into Markdown for AI agents and HTML for people.