Now

posted: Saturday, May 2, 2026

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Focus

  • Production AI agents at /\$DAYJOB/. Rolling out internal agent infrastructure with real customer data behind it. Compliance edges, eval suites, on-call playbooks. The fun stuff and the boring stuff in equal measure.
  • AI document extraction. Pulling structured data out of utility bills and the kind of PDFs that look like they were faxed in 2003. Two-phase validation: deterministic checks first (totals match, dates parse, units make sense), then a nondeterministic pass with a model when the deterministic layer can’t reach a verdict. The hybrid catches more than either side alone.
  • The Flue stack on Kubernetes. Self-hosted serverless for agents. Three posts in the can, more in the queue.
  • Cost-aware Kubernetes. Watching cluster spend like a hawk while AI workloads scale up unpredictably. There’s a talk hiding in here somewhere.

Stack This Week

  • TypeScript 7 beta. The Go rewrite is real. Compile feels like Go.
  • Flue + Knative. Self-hosted agent harness on K8s.

Reading

  • More LLM eval papers than I expected to.
  • Internal architecture decision records. More than I want to admit.

Thinking

  • An internal /\$DAYJOB/ session on the agent rollout.