Structuring Software for Humans, MCP, and Peer Agents
Your UI is just one client now; your apps must now treat humans, LLMs, and peer agents as equal consumers.
Writing archive
Notes from real work.
Applied AI, cloud engineering, data systems, security, and the occasional argument about how software should be built.
Replacing the Azure Monitor SDK with Vanilla OpenTelemetry
Azure Monitor quietly shipped a native OTLP endpoint. Here's how to send traces, metrics, and logs to App Insights from a plain Python app — no vendor SDK, your instrumentation stays portable.
God Is the Light of the World—And So Is Everything Else
A journey inspired by the Artemis II mission—from a simple question about why we do not fall off a spherical Earth to the discovery that all energy ultimately reduces to light. Along the way, we explore gravity, the vacuum of space, engineered combustion, and the thermodynamic fate of every sound and vibration in the universe.
The Case for Disproportionate Investments in AI: What Investors Get That We Don't
Corporate AI investment reached $252.3 billion in 2024 and is projected to hit $562 billion by 2026. Is this a bubble, or does it reflect a long-term valuation model that standard metrics fail to capture? This article examines the evidence from both sides.
The Uncomfortable Economics of AGI Nobody's Talking About
We're all excited about AGI and its transformative promise. But what happens when the most capable AI systems remain expensive? We need to have an honest conversation about access, economics, and who actually benefits from artificial general intelligence.