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Essays on AI engineering — agents, infra, and what actually breaks in production.
Measuring Cold Starts on a 27B Hugging Face Endpoint
Oct 1, 20268 min readI deployed Qwen3.8-27B on a dedicated Hugging Face Inference Endpoint, scaled it to zero three times, and measured what cold starts actually cost: 6.6–10 minute boots, 36–50 hard 503s, and roughly $0.28–$0.42 of billed startup per wake.
I built an AI audio briefing app and moved it to AWS
Jul 2, 20269 min readHow I moved briefcast from a local AI briefing app into a production-style AWS setup with queues, workers, storage, observability, and cost trade-offs — and then imported the whole stack into Terraform.
I built my own AI coding agent. Then I actually used it.
Jun 10, 20269 min readA week of dogfooding astra-claw, my CLI coding agent: emergent OCR pipelines, silent package installs, memory that forgets its own lessons, and approval fatigue.
Building Briefly AI: a Python CLI that turns URLs, PDFs, and YouTube videos into concise AI briefs
May 4, 20265 min readHow I built Briefly AI, a terminal-first Python CLI that extracts clean text from URLs, PDFs, and YouTube videos and turns it into concise, prompt-shaped briefs.
From confusion to clarity: my journey into AI agents
Sep 30, 20254 min readA personal story of learning AI agents from scratch—exploring CrewAI, LangGraph, FastAPI, and MCP. Discover the resources, challenges, and tips that shaped my path.