Posts
Retrospective ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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.