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Not Every AI Problem Needs a Trillion Parameters
POST 04 · April 12, 20265 MIN

Not Every AI Problem Needs a Trillion Parameters

I built a full AI document platform on desktop hardware with open weight models. No cloud bill. No data leaving the building.

AISoftware Architecture.NET
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The Hidden Token Tax of Beautiful Abstractions
POST 03 · March 1, 20265 MIN

The Hidden Token Tax of Beautiful Abstractions

Your elegant abstraction layers made sense when keystrokes were expensive. In the AI agent era, they're undocumented libraries your agent can't Google.

AIAI AgentsSoftware Architecture
MCP, SSE, and Agents Oh MY! Building AI Experiences with .NET 10
POST 02 · November 12, 20255 MIN

MCP, SSE, and Agents Oh MY! Building AI Experiences with .NET 10

A demo exploring Model Context Protocol, Server-Sent Events, and Microsoft Agent Framework, seeing what's possible when you wire Claude, real-time events, and business intelligence together

AIAI Agents.NET
AI Coding Partners and the 50 First Dates Problem
POST 01 · November 10, 20245 MIN

AI Coding Partners and the 50 First Dates Problem

Why your AI coding assistant forgets everything overnight and how knowledge bases can solve this amnesia problem

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