It all started at 3:43 PM in the Starbucks parking lot. My daughter was inside having coffee with her friends and I was sitting in the car waiting for her. After a few minutes of doom scrolling, I went back…
Over the past week, I built a full-stack system from the ground up, frontend, backend, documentation, tests, deployment, and had it live on Railway in just under 7 days. The system is non-trivial: React frontend Spring Boot services Multiple modules…
AI coding tools aren’t here to replace developers. At least not when you use them on purpose. They’re more like smart collaborators that need some human steering. Over the past year, I’ve been using AI coding tools to build Minions,…
In agentic systems where reasoning and decision-making are part of the critical path, memory management is far more complex than just keeping a transcript of user and agent exchanges. As impressive as modern LLMs are, their behavior is highly sensitive…
One of the hardest- and most expensive – lessons I learned while building the Minions framework was that RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), despite its strengths, is not sufficient for Agentic AI. I initially chose RAG because it seemed like the logical…