Notes from the workbench.
Engineering takes from a two-person studio that ships. We write when building something teaches us a thing the docs didn't — mostly about keeping software honest while a language model lives inside it.
What we're thinking about.
No content treadmill. We publish when we've shipped the thing and it changed how we build.
Longer essays from the studio
What the 14-day promise actually costs us — and why we still do it
A founder essay from the ops side: the money we leave on the table, what scoping really looks like, and the three habits the promise forces on us.
Read the essay → Technical note · Memory architectureHow we benchmarked our memory systems (and what we got wrong the first three times)
The eval rig behind our top-3 hit rate — the wrong metrics we started with, the synthetic queries that lied to us, and the moment we threw the leaderboard out.
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