10 min read
AGENTS.md speaks UNIX, and you should too
Unix gives coding agents the tools. AGENTS.md explains where to edit, how to check, and what to preserve. Lessons from my dotfiles and human review.
- Agent
- Coding
- Project
Writing
Articles
Pragmatic field notes on AI agents, MLOps, cloud architecture, and engineering systems.
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2026
15 min read
LiteLLM is the known option. agentgateway is the open one.
Comparing LiteLLM and agentgateway for enterprise AI platforms: licensing boundaries, security advisories, ops footprints, and open governance.
- Agent
- LLM
- Guide
6 min read
The MLOps Adventure Continues: An AGENTS.md Ready Stack for AI/ML
AI coding agents amplify repository friction. How we redesigned an MLOps codebase around deterministic single-command gates, SQLite isolation, and AGENTS.md.
- Coding
- MLOps
- Guide
6 min read
MCP 2026-07-28: Stateless core, enterprise authorization, and SDK betas
Running a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server behind multiple instances presents immediate infrastructure challenges.
- Agent
- Guide
9 min read
The Affordable AI Agents
Engineering organizations are waking up to a sobering financial reality: the cost of running AI systems scales linearly, not logarithmically.
- Agent
- LLM
12 min read
Agent Evolutions: Stop Guessing the Design — Evolve It
Agent-evolutions is a set of Agent Skills that turns a coding agent into a budgeted genetic search over a design space, with verifiable scoring at every step.
- Coding
- Project
10 min read
Agent Levers: A Plan-Do-Check-Act Loop That Makes Coding Agents Finish What They Start
A coding agent is only as useful as the spec you give it. That sentence sounds like a truism until you watch it play out for an afternoon.
- Coding
- Guide
11 min read
Agent Docs: Answer Locally Before the Web — A Shared Reference for Every Coding Agent
Pair-program with a coding agent for an afternoon and you start noticing a quiet, recurring tax.
- Coding
- Project
9 min read
Supagents: One Source to Rule Your Coding Subagents
Supagents compiles one Markdown persona per subagent into the native formats of Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, OpenCode, and Kilo Code.
- Coding
- Project
9 min read
AI Agents as an Operating System: Rediscovering the Linux Philosophy
We are building the most advanced AI systems in history, yet the best way to control them relies on paradigms from the 1970s.
- Agent
- LLM
8 min read
The 5xP Framework: Steering AI Coding Agents from Chaos to Success
AI Coding — or Spec-Driven Development — is a recent trend that amazes as much as it scares IT engineers.
- Coding
- Guide
6 min read
How I Revamped My Portfolio Website in 5 Nights Using AI Agents
How I revamped my portfolio website, fmind.dev, in five nights using AI agents: preparing the agent, steering it, the result, and my key takeaways.
- Coding
- Demo
5 min read
Chaigent: An affordable alternative to Gemini Enterprise on Google Cloud
Build a cost-effective, private AI Agent solution on Google Cloud using Chainlit and Vertex AI. Detailed architecture and code guide.
- Agent
- Cloud
- Project
5 min read
mAIdAI: Building a Personal Assistant with Google Cloud and Vertex AI
Build a personal AI assistant using Google Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and Google Chat. A guide to architecting context-aware agents.
- Agent
- Cloud
- Project
9 min read
Building with A2UI: Extending the Expressiveness of AI Agent Interfaces
Building AI-First apps with A2UI: from the Agent-View-Controller (AVC) pattern to managing latency. A practical case study with Featest.
- Agent
- LLM
5 min read
MLOps Coding Skills: Bridging the Gap Between Specs and Agents
Bridge the gap between engineering specs and AI agents using Agent Skills. Learn to inject ‘Senior Engineer’ context for production MLOps.
- Coding
- MLOps
- Guide
9 min read
Finding the Holy Grail of AI Agent UIs: From AI-Orchestrated Development to A2UI
Discover how A2UI solves the AI Agent UI bottleneck. A deep dive into replacing chatbots with agents that project their own native UIs.
- Agent
- LLM
2025
12 min read
Architecting the AI Agent Platform: A Definitive Guide
AI agent platform architecture in 7 layers, from interaction and development to observability and trust: how to serve, secure, and monitor enterprise agents.
- Agent
- Cloud
- Guide
8 min read
Powering Up your Agent in Production with ADK, OAuth and Gemini Enterprise
Power up your AI agent in production. Learn to deploy a secure ‘Slides Translator’ using ADK, OAuth, and Gemini Enterprise.
- Agent
- Cloud
10 min read
The Real AI Agent Bottleneck is the Damn UI
For AI agents, the biggest challenge isn’t the model, it’s the UI. A deep dive into the user interface bottleneck for enterprise AI.
- Agent
7 min read
Da2a: The Future of Data Platforms is Agentic, Distributed, and Collaborative
For decades, the story of data platforms has been one of centralization and heavy engineering.
- Agent
- Cloud
9 min read
Ackgent: Rapid Agent Development on GCP with ADK and Agent Config
Speed up AI agent development on GCP with Ackgent. Build, deploy, and iterate faster using Google ADK and Agent Config's declarative approach.
- Agent
- Cloud
- Project
6 min read
Combo-Banana: Building Custom Image Workflows in Record Time
Build custom AI image workflows fast with Combo-Banana. Empower designers to automate tedious editing tasks with Google Nano-Banana.
- LLM
- Project
4 min read
Vibe Youtubing with NotebookLM: The MLOps Coding Course Gets a Video Upgrade in Under 48 Hours
I launched the first video series of my MLOps Coding Course, covering the introduction and the entire first chapter, made with NotebookLM in under 48 hours.
- LLM
- Demo
14 min read
Deploying AI Agents in the Enterprise using ADK and Google Cloud
Learn to deploy AI agents in the enterprise using ADK & Google Cloud. We compare Cloud Run & Vertex AI for secure, scalable AgentOps.
- Agent
- Cloud
8 min read
Happy Birthday XP: Celebrating Gemini Deep Think (and My Daughter’s 6th Birthday)
A father tests Gemini AI’s coding skills to create a magical birthday for his 6-year-old. See the staggering results from Deep Think!
- LLM
- Demo
8 min read
Slides-To-Translate: When IT Says No, Build a $0.04 Solution on Your Lunch Break
It is a classic tale of corporate life. A colleague of mine at Decathlon had a mammoth task: translate a 155-slide presentation into several languages.
- LLM
- Demo
6 min read
It’s Not Artificial: Recreating a Conversational Format with Gemini’s Multi-Speaker Text to Speech
A guide to creating conversational AI with Gemini. Generate custom educational audio with multiple voices using a simple Python script.
- LLM
- Demo
9 min read
The Agentic Cloud: Forging the Next Era of Infrastructure
Agentic Cloud: Disrupting cloud giants with AI. Learn how intelligent agents will commoditize hyperscalers & reshape infrastructure.
- Agent
- Cloud
13 min read
Scaling the Summit: Challenges for Serving LLMs at Scale on GCP
Navigate the challenges of scaling LLMs on GCP and get benchmark insights for cost-effective, reliable, and quick LLM serving.
- LLM
- Cloud
7 min read
The Great Data Divergence: Why Generative AI Demands a New Approach Beyond the Data Lake
Explore the shift from slow data pipelines to real-time API management for building Gen AI systems and modern enterprise data architecture.
- LLM
- Cloud
9 min read
Hackathon Speedrun: Build & Deploy a RAG App in Minutes with Vertex AI Studio & Vertex AI Search!
Build & deploy a RAG app in minutes! Use Vertex AI Studio & Vertex AI Search for a rapid hackathon win. Ground LLMs with your data.
- RAG
- Cloud
- Demo
7 min read
Introducing GentWriter: Building a Multi-Agent Content Generator with Google’s ADK 👾
How I built GentWriter with Google's ADK: a multi-agent system that turns one article URL into an SEO description, an X post, and a LinkedIn post.
- Agent
- Python
- Project
8 min read
CAG vs. RAG: Choosing the Right Strategy for Your AI Application
CAG vs RAG for Generative AI: Compare latency, cost & complexity. Choose the best LLM context strategy for your app.
- LLM
- RAG
7 min read
Structured LLM Outputs Made Easy: Building a Slack Digest Agent with Pydantic AI
As developers and AI practitioners, many of us belong to vibrant online communities, like the MLOps Community on Slack.
- Agent
- LLM
- Python
6 min read
GitWorks: an AI Agent for Enforcing GitHub Repository Standards
A Python notebook agent that reviews GitHub repositories against your own guidelines automatically, using Google Colab, the GitHub API, and Gemini models.
- Coding
- Project
7 min read
GenV: An Agentic Workflow for Actionable Insights from Google Meet Recordings
Video meetings on platforms like Google Meet are essential for collaboration, but how often do crucial details get lost moments after the call ends?
- Agent
- Project
7 min read
BKFC: An Agentic Workflow for Gathering Knowledge from Google Chat
Team collaboration often lives and breathes within chat applications like Google Chat or Slack.
- Agent
- Project
8 min read
Framework, Template, or Example? 🤔 Choosing the Right AI Starter Kit for Your Team ✨
Building AI applications is incredibly exciting. But let’s be honest: getting started can be challenging, especially in large organizations.
- MLOps
- Guide
6 min read
More Automation + More Reproducibility = MLOps Python Package v4.1.0
The MLOps Python Package is your go-to solution for building robust and reproducible AI/ML workflows. Check out the latest v4.1.0 release!
- MLOps
- Python
- Project
4 min read
Meet Kate: Your AI-Powered, Live Multimodal Website Assistant 🤖
Meet Kate: an AI-powered, live, multimodal website assistant. She uses voice, understands your needs, and retrieves info from a website.
- Agent
- Demo
7 min read
Lessons Learned from the Gemini Long Context Kaggle Competition 🧠
Explored Gemini’s long context in a Kaggle competition. Key lessons learned about its potential and limitations.
- LLM
- Demo
6 min read
Stop Building Rigid AI/ML Pipelines: Embrace Reusable Components for Flexible MLOps
MLOps pipelines are often too rigid. We propose using reusable artifacts orchestrated by DAGs. Think functional programming for ML!
- MLOps
- Python
7 min read
Poetry vs uv: Poetry Was Good, uv Is Better
Poetry vs uv from a real migration: how I moved the MLOps Python Package to uv, with the pyproject.toml, CI, and Docker changes, and why builds got faster.
- MLOps
- Python
2024
4 min read
Taming Python Installation with Pyenv for AI/ML and MLOps Projects
Tame your Python chaos! Learn how pyenv simplifies managing Python versions for AI/ML & MLOps, ensuring smooth, reproducible development.
- Python
- Guide
7 min read
Bromate: Automate Your Browser with Agentic Workflows 🧭
The AI landscape is constantly evolving, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with technology.
- Agent
- Project
5 min read
MLOps Package Template: Turbocharge the Creation of AI/ML Projects ⚡
The Cookiecutter MLOps Package offers a powerful code template to jumpstart your MLOps journey and accelerate your AI/ML development.
- MLOps
- Python
- Project
7 min read
MLOps Coding Course: Mastering Observability for Reliable ML 💡
This article dives deep into the essential tools and practices for achieving comprehensive observability in your AI/ML projects.
- MLOps
- Guide
5 min read
MLOps Coding Course: Bridging the gap between Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers
The MLOps Coding Course is an open-source resource specifically designed to bridge the gap between data science and software engineering.
- MLOps
- Guide
18 min read
Make your MLOps code base SOLID with Pydantic and Python’s ABC
A method to build robust yet flexible MLOps code bases with Python's ABC and Pydantic, grounded in design patterns and the SOLID principles.
- MLOps
- Python
10 min read
Become the maestro of your MLOps abstractions
The MLOps ecosystem is evolving into a sophisticated symphony, composed of diverse tools, methodologies, and cultures.
- MLOps
- Python
2023
16 min read
How to configure VS Code for AI, ML and MLOps development in Python 🛠️️
In this article, I will outline the steps for configuring VS Code for data scientists and machine learning engineers.
- Python
- Guide
10 min read
Forging a Personal Chatbot with OpenAI API, Chroma DB, HuggingFace Spaces, and Gradio 🔥
How I built a chatbot that answers questions about my resume with the OpenAI API, Chroma DB, HuggingFace Spaces, and Gradio, and what I learned along the way.
- LLM
- RAG
- Demo
9 min read
Finding Harmony in MLOps: Balancing Functional and Object-Oriented Approaches ☯
Programmers have always been passionate about their preferences, whether they discuss spaces vs. tabs, Vim vs. Emacs, or light mode vs. dark mode.
- MLOps
- Python
8 min read
Is AI/ML Monitoring just Data Engineering? 🤔
While the future of machine learning and MLOps is being debated, practitioners still need to attend to their machine learning models in production.
- MLOps
6 min read
A great MLOps project should start with a good Python Package 🐍
MLOps practitioners (rightfully) point out that running notebooks in production is a bad software practice, but what are the alternatives?
- MLOps
- Python
- Project
14 min read
Fixing the MLOps Survey on LLMs with ChatGPT API: Lessons Learned
How I used the ChatGPT API to standardize the open-ended answers of the MLOps Community survey on LLMs in production, and the lessons I learned.
- LLM
- MLOps
- Demo
6 min read
We need POSIX for MLOps
There is an ever-growing landscape of tools and solutions for MLOps. In this article, I propose a solution to address this challenge.
- MLOps
2022
6 min read
How to install Kubeflow Pipelines v2 on Apple Silicon
Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP) is a powerful platform for building machine learning pipelines at scale with Kubernetes.
- Cloud
- Guide
2019
4 min read
3P Principle: Purpose, Productivity, Performance
A fundamental trade-off that affects the design of programming languages and the success of software projects.
- Guide