Writing

First-principles notes on agent systems and AI for traditional businesses. New posts land here without a redesign.

Jun 2026
Trellis 1.0-rc: making the process enforce itself
The last gap was not a missing rule. It was no guarantee the rules ran the same way in every harness, on every layer, on every project. Here is how I closed it.
May 2026
Folding Anthropic's large-codebase playbook into Trellis
A point-by-point gap analysis against the latest Claude Code best-practices guide, and the ten changes I shipped to close the gaps.
May 2026
Trellis: An Engineering Process for AI Coding Agents
How I run six projects with one rulebook, nine hooks, and a fleet of weekly audits — and why I open-sourced it.
Apr 2026
Building this portfolio
Why the site ships with the same process I'd bring to a client engagement — PRD, ADRs, ROADMAP, process-gate, agent-readiness, the whole thing in the open.
Apr 2026
What I learned building micrograd and makemore from scratch
A foundations-first reading of Karpathy's Zero to Hero — why re-implementing the thing is the only way to understand the thing.
Mar 2026
Notes on bringing AI to an MSME
WhatsApp, paper ledgers, Tally, and a few spreadsheets. What actually moves the needle, and what doesn't.
Feb 2026
Migrating from Fastembed ONNX to Hugging Face TEI
The specific trade-offs, the retrieval quality delta on an institutional corpus, and why the infra complexity was worth it.

Trellis 1.0-rc: making the process enforce itself