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Field notes from production
Long-form posts on Claude, MCP, and the agent stack — patterns that survive contact with production. Free, and never behind a signup wall.
Real screenshots, not stock slop — headless source-page capture
Stock footage screams content farm. Capturing the actual source — the repo, the docs, the release notes — with a headless browser makes the output look like it came from someone who read the thing.
read →Record your own voice — forced alignment instead of paying for TTS
Synthetic narration is the fastest tell that something is AI slop. Narrate in your own voice and still automate the timing — forced alignment maps your audio to the script for frame-accurate captions, free.
read →What "production" actually means for an LLM pipeline
The demo works on your laptop. Production is everything the demo skipped — retries, idempotency, output validation, cost tracking, and what to do when the model returns garbage at 3am.
read →The seen-store — give your agent a memory so it stops repeating itself
An autonomous pipeline that can't remember what it already did will, eventually, do it again. The fix is twenty lines, not a database migration.
read →Use Claude as a scorer, not just a generator
The most underrated way to put an LLM in a pipeline is as a ranking function, not a writer. How to do it cheaply, stably, and without slop.
read →Hello, Agent Brief
What this site is and what it isn't.
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