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DESIGNING SYSTEMS · BUILDING WITH AI

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AI Isn't the Team

What it takes to create complex things with AI

DEV.to · October 9, 2026 · 7:19 PM EDT · 6 min read

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DEV.to · October 1, 2026 · 4:37 PM EDT · 11 min read

Why AI Voices Sound Incredible for 30 Seconds and Unbearable After Three Minutes

Why Your Brain Rebels

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Medium · September 14, 2026 · 6:47 PM EDT · 5 min read

Deterministic Software + Probabilistic Intelligence

What I learned after trying to make the combination scale.

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DEV.to · September 7, 2026 · 9:27 PM EDT · 4 min read

Beyond the Monolithic Skill: Architecting Hierarchical Sub-Agents with Mixed Model Tiers

Once you have persistent memory and clean session hygiene, the next hurdle is skill design. Here is how we avoid skill fragmentation while keeping execution fast and token-efficien...

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DEV.to · September 7, 2026 · 1:00 PM EDT · 3 min read

How We Cut AI Agent Token Usage by 85% with Local MCP

In Part 1, we gave our coding agent infinite memory. Here is how we used that retrieval engine to eliminate 3,000-turn marathon sessions and crush our token bill.

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