Field Notes
Learning to build with AI, and writing it down as I go.
I'm a technical architect with 20 years building system level and cloud native products. I now lead AI strategy and applied systems in sport and entertainment, building the teams and agentic systems behind it, and I'm the founder of AgenticGoKit, an open source Go framework for AI agents. I write here about what I'm figuring out along the way.
Recent Writing
Agentic Development Needs Its Methodology Moment
Every leap in who writes software was unlocked by process, not talent. AI agents are the next leap, and the teams winning with them gave their agent a methodology.
ReadThe AI Writes the Screenplay, the Renderer Never Lies
Notes from building vsim, a tool for AI assisted video that is completely reproducible. The model writes the screenplay as a validated document; a deterministic renderer turns it into the same MP4, byte for byte, forever.
ReadYou Do Not Trust the Output. You Trust the Loop.
Vibe coding and agentic coding are not points on a scale. They are opposites, separated by one thing: whether you trust a single output or a process that earns it.
ReadThe Skills That Compound With AI Aren't Technical
As AI takes over the writing of code, the traits that separate good builders from great ones are problem-first thinking and empathy.
ReadAI Made Building Cheap. Safe Deployment Is the New Scarcity.
Why the real unlock for an AI-native company is not letting everyone build. It is letting everyone ship without burning the house down.
ReadAI-Native Companies Will Outlearn Everyone Else
The real advantage was never automation. It is compounding learning.
ReadThe Hidden LLM Call: Why AgenticGoKit Was 2x Slower
How a hidden continuation loop, a leaky network stack, and pprof helped Go reclaim the fast path. go slower 2x Situation: “Why is Go slower than Python?” I …
ReadAnnouncing v1beta: Production-Ready AI Agents in Go
We’re excited to announce v1beta, our next-generation API for building AI agents in Go. With streaming-first architecture, multimodal support, and powerful workflow orchestration, building production-ready AI systems has never been easier.
ReadBuilding a Local Document Reader with Streaming TTS
KittenTTS demo Ever wished you could just press play on a long document and have it read to you without uploading anything to the cloud? That’s exactly what …
ReadReal-Time AI Editorial Workflows in Go: Loop, Revise, Publish with AgenticGoKit
Build real-time AI editorial workflows in Go with AgenticGoKit — loop revisions, stream progress to a live UI, and publish polished stories.
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