Stories by chtefi

Testing a Kafka Proxy: Taming Millions of Permutations

Loop Engineering: When Generation Gets Cheap, Judgment Gets Expensive

How to Tell If Your Kafka Self-Service Is Working?

MCP is definitely not dead

Kafka Partitions are the wrong ordering abstraction. Keys are

Most agent reliability problems are data engineering problems

Unified macOS service console for launchd and Homebrew

Agents Are Microservices with a Brain

Do LLMs Dream? The Post-Transformers Generation

Is Anthropic Enshittifying their core product?

Stream your terminal. Watch AI agents work. Like Twitch, for shells

$200 subscription VS $3,650 in compute

Kafka Explorer – Configuration, Protocol, Wire Format, Errors, Flink SQL

Paper Cuts #2: RAG is dead, long live memory

Decisions, extracted knowledge, handoff context: reasoning data infrastructure

How to stop your AI agent from gaming its own KPI

Algorithm names are the new cognitive activators. Your vocabulary is your tool

Claude Code told me what tools it needs to work faster

Semantic closure: why compilers know when they are right and LLMs do not

Prompt optimization can outperform reinforcement learning on LLMs