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Four long-form articles on AI systems, software architecture, and the decisions behind them.
2026-07-29 · 6 MIN READ
The Voice Agent Problem Nobody Talks About
When you talk to a voice agent, the hard part is not transcription or synthesis. The hard part is what happens when you interrupt it mid-sentence, or pause to think and t…
2026-07-28 · 6 MIN READ
How Claude Learned to Watch Videos: The Decomposition Pattern for Multimodal AI Agents
Claude can read a webpage. It can run a script. It can browse a repository. What it cannot do, out of the box, is watch a video. You paste a YouTube link and it has to ei…
2026-07-26 · 9 MIN READ
How Alibaba's OpenCodeReview Achieves 9x Token Savings: A Deep Dive into the Hybrid Architecture
When Alibaba open-sourced their internal code review tool last month, the numbers caught my attention. 12,000+ stars in weeks. Claims of "higher precision and F1 than gen…
2026-07-25 · 3 MIN READ
Building Code Buddy: A Multi-Agent GenAI Code Review Platform at Qualcomm
At Qualcomm, I had the opportunity to architect Code Buddy , a multi-agent GenAI code-review platform that's now deployed across 4,000+ repositories and serves 12,000+ en…