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Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn't (8 minute read)

The future of software will be powered by high-quality, well-documented building blocks that users can build specialized artifacts on top of. Agents are good at composing high-quality components. Maintainers can provide these components alongside a focus application, and users can choose how to modify their experiences themselves. This allows software to be personalized while still being developed by maintainers that care.

Jun 12 | Blog

I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

A "simple" weekend project turns into real infrastructure, and why agent context deserves a boring, reliable foundation.

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LinkedIn's job search ranking trains a 0.6B student model on signals from three teachers covering relevance, engagement, and embeddings. Caching teacher outputs at the shard level cut training time from 45 hours to under 5 hours without accuracy loss, enabling same-day iteration cycles.

Aug 07 | Dev

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Generative UI replaces the “wall of text” in AI responses with interfaces generated to match user intent. It breaks into three generation categories: static/controlled (model picks tool arguments and app code maps results to existing components), declarative (model composes layouts from a versioned component catalog via specs like A2UI over AG-UI), and open-ended (raw HTML/CSS/JS in a sandboxed iframe, still blocked by security, latency, and consistency).

Aug 07 | AI

Tradeoffs in Open-Weights Models (9 minute read)

The report examines how open-weight models could expand user control and defensive capabilities while also increasing risks from hacking, biological misuse, and loss of centralized safeguards.

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Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn't (8 minute read)

I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

The Training Infrastructure Behind AI-Powered Job Search: 8X Faster Multi-Teacher Distillation (7 minute read)

Generative UI (14 minute read)

Tradeoffs in Open-Weights Models (9 minute read)

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