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Thoughts, deep-dives, and hard-won lessons at the intersection of AI, engineering, and building things that last.


Building a Production-Ready MCP Server: How I Gave an AI Agent the Run of Our Platform, and Why I Removed Every Delete Button First
A Model Context Protocol server that exposes an entire production SaaS platform to an AI agent — content, sessions, devices, analytics, billing, jobs. Seven layers, 289 tools, and no delete button anywhere on the surface.

Software Engineering's Great Re-bundling
AI made producing software artefacts cheap and verifying them expensive. That single split is why engineering roles are collapsing into fewer, wider ones.

From Model to Product: Foundations for Practical AI Engineering
Everyone is building with AI today. Very few are building systems that actually work in production. This article explores the real gap between models and products, and why thinking like an AI engineer matters more than ever.

Building a Production-Ready Prompt Engine: How I Designed a System That Handles Everything from Dynamic Templates to Multi-Layer Guardrails
A behind-the-scenes look at how I designed and built a production-ready prompt engine - from dynamic templates and reusable components to multi-layer guardrails, structured output, and parallel execution.

Bringing Computer Vision to the Edge: How I Cut Real-Time Similarity Search Battery Usage by 50%
Building real-time computer vision on low-end mobile devices comes with unique challenges - especially when every second of inference drains battery. Here's how I optimised similarity search using HNSW and hybrid re-ranking to cut battery usage by over 50%.



Software is Changing (Again): Key Takeaways from Andrej Karpathy’s Talk at YC AI Startup School
Andrej Karpathy’s talk at Y Combinator’s AI Startup School explores Software 3.0, the rise of LLMs as programmable computers, vibe coding, and building partial autonomy apps. Learn how AI is transforming how we build - and who gets to build - the future of software.

Why SEO Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI (And What You’re Missing Out On)
In a world where anyone can build a product fast, visibility is everything. Discover why SEO is more crucial than ever in the AI era - and how it can make your startup stand out.

Why I Chose Preact (And Why I Might Never Look Back)
When performance is non-negotiable and the app must shine on low-end devices, you start questioning your default stack. Here’s why I chose Preact - the tiny, powerful alternative to React - and how it reshaped my dev experience on the edge.

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