Thoughts
Notes, articles and talks on agentic systems, serverless and leading engineering teams.
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- 2026
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Article
Dollar budgets that stop runaway agents
Token metering tells you what happened. A hard dollar ceiling is what stops the next one. What Ktesio does when an agent hits its budget mid-task.
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Note
Java to serverless, one endpoint at a time
Incremental replacement beats the big rewrite. The routing trick that let us retire a Java service without a cutover weekend.
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Talk
A full-day CrewAI workshop for 21 engineers
Slides and notes from the hands-on workshop across the mortgage domain's teams. What landed, what did not.
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Article
What an internal PR-review agent actually needs
Atlas reviews pull requests every day at a bank. The permissions model, the audit trail, and the parts nobody asks for until they are missing.
- 2025
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Note
Running a team of seven that is not all engineers
Four engineers, a UX designer and customer-journey specialists share one backlog. How the roadmap conversation changes.
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Article
A design system for a one-page résumé
Why a personal site got tokens, a component catalogue and a checklist — and what it cost.