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Notes from the workshop floor.

Slow, careful posts on what we've learned shipping AI-native apps.

5 min

Stateful Agents, Standardized Protocols, and Native UI: The Next Era of Developer Tooling

The developer landscape is undergoing a major transition. Engineers are moving past brittle, stateless LLM wrappers toward resilient, state-managing agentic systems on the backend, balanced by a return to high-performance, lightweight craftsmanship on the frontend. The current focus centers on building reliable developer tooling, predictable AI execution, and hardware-accelerated user interfaces.

May 30, 2026Read
6 min

Four tool-calling patterns that hold up

After a year of shipping tool-using LLMs, four patterns keep showing up. The other twenty we tried did not.

May 30, 2026Read
6 min

Shipping agents in production: a checklist

A short, opinionated checklist for taking an LLM agent from a flashy demo to something you can actually keep on call for.

May 30, 2026Read
7 min

A practical RAG chunking playbook

Chunking is the single highest-leverage knob in a RAG system. Here is how we choose chunk size, overlap, and structure for real corpora.

May 30, 2026Read
5 min

Treat your evals as code

Evals are not a notebook you run once before launch. They are a test suite. Here is what that looks like in practice.

May 30, 2026Read
5 min

Stateful Agents, Standardized Protocols, and Native UI: The Next Era of Developer Tooling

The developer landscape is undergoing a major transition. Engineers are moving past brittle, stateless LLM wrappers toward resilient, state-managing agentic systems on the backend, balanced by a return to high-performance, lightweight craftsmanship on the frontend. The current focus centers on building reliable developer tooling, predictable AI execution, and hardware-accelerated user interfaces.

May 30, 2026Read
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