Reverse-Engineering a Smart Cat Litter Box for Home Assistant
How I used mitmproxy to intercept mobile IoT traffic, reverse-engineered the Furrytail cloud API, and automated our robot vacuum after every 3 cat visits.
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Architecture notes, system designs, and reflections on building and operating production software.
Automating Infrastructure Support Triage: Building a Multi-Skill Intake Agent in Cursor
How we built an event-driven Cursor Cloud Agent triggered by issue webhooks and Slack to classify infrastructure tickets, search historical precedents, and auto-tag business units.
Beyond RAG and Flat Memory Files: Architecting Long-Term Memory for AI Agents
Why production agents need structured memory banks, background fact consolidation, and temporal invalidation instead of naive vector chunking or bloated markdown files.
Designing an Enterprise Agent Skills Repo: Preventing Tool Sprawl with Embedding CI
How we structured an org-wide skills repository across 500+ engineers with team-scoped CODEOWNERS, dynamic GitHub MCP retrieval, and automated embedding similarity checks.
Why We Deliberately Sunset Our First Production AI Agent
Architectural post-mortem of Jarvis: supervisor routing pitfalls, multi-agent chaining, dual memory with vector DBs, and retiring bespoke bots for enterprise platforms.
Unsupervised Defect Telemetry: Clustering 26,000 Support Tickets with Embeddings and DBSCAN
How we used dense vector embeddings, cosine distance thresholds, and LLM-powered deep research to catch silent production bugs months before traditional alerts.
Stateless JWE Authentication for Serverless MCP Servers
How moving from stateful container sessions to JSON Web Encryption unlocks scale-to-zero Lambda for Model Context Protocol tools.
Grounding Financial Claims: Building an Editorial Fact-Checking Pipeline with Gemini and LangGraph
Designing a human-in-the-loop verification pipeline using LangGraph, Vertex AI Search Grounding, and parallel claim evaluation.
Scaling Multi-Account AWS Architecture: Eliminating 2,926 Peering Connections
How Transit Gateway, automated IPAM, and a multi-account cloud paradigm unlocked engineering autonomy across 77 accounts.