Writing

Notes & essays

Thinking out loud about AI agents, distributed systems, and the craft of explaining hard ideas simply.

  • Building Agents That Actually Shipdraft

    What changes when an agent has to be reliable: task graphs, retries, and knowing when to stop.

    • #AI
    • #agents
    Mar 2026
    7 min

  • System Design on a Napkindraft

    A repeatable way to reason about a system before writing any code — using nothing but boxes and arrows.

    • #systems
    • #design
    Jan 2026
    6 min

  • Why I Make Manim Videosdraft

    Animation forces you to actually understand the thing. Notes on explaining hard ideas visually.

    • #visualization
    • #teaching
    Dec 2025
    5 min