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Notes from the field.

Working notes on the craft — engineering at scale, the AI-era developer experience, frontend that most teams leave on the table, and whatever else has my attention this week.

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Building anchor: dual-surface product pages, agents.json, delegated-authority checkout, and AEO instrumentation
Anchor is an open-source AI-native product catalog. Every product has a human page AND three statically-cached LLM-facing endpoints. A /.well-known/agents.json descriptor publishes capabilities in the Agentic Commerce Protocol shape. A delegated-authority checkout endpoint runs an eight-check pipeline. AEO instrumentation classifies 13 LLM crawlers and logs every fetch through a proxy so cache hits stay observed. Here are the design choices that mattered.
ai
agents
commerce
aeo
agentic-commerce-protocol
nextjs
open-source
applied-ai
May 24, 202614 min
Loom: durable AI commerce with Vercel Workflows, exactly-once side effects, and a bounded agent gate
Loom is an open-source backend that demonstrates the patterns required to let an LLM influence real money movement safely. Four Vercel Workflows run end-to-end with durable sleep, exactly-once side effects, saga compensation, Stripe webhook drift reconciliation, and a deterministic authorization gate that bounds every agent decision. Ships with an adversarial eval harness and a failure-injection harness. Built on Vercel Workflows (GA), the Vercel AI SDK, Anthropic, Stripe, and Upstash.
ai
durable-execution
agents
workflows
stripe
open-source
applied-ai
May 23, 202614 min
Building Forge: a multi-agent debugging concierge in production-grade TypeScript
Forge is an open-source multi-agent debugging concierge. Point it at a stack trace and four specialist subagents fan out in parallel, each with a focused tool set, before a coordinator merges their structured findings into ranked hypotheses with calibration-weighted confidence. Built on the Vercel AI SDK plus Anthropic. This post walks the architecture: parallel agent orchestration, durable resumable sessions, cross-instance abort, Brier-score calibration as a feedback loop, and what production deployment would change.
ai
agents
multi-agent
streaming
open-source
applied-ai
May 22, 202620 min

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Notes from the field.

Building anchor: dual-surface product pages, agents.json, delegated-authority checkout, and AEO instrumentation

Loom: durable AI commerce with Vercel Workflows, exactly-once side effects, and a bounded agent gate

Building Forge: a multi-agent debugging concierge in production-grade TypeScript

Building Kev-O: a grounded RAG chatbot trained on my own writing

mdx-corpus: a tiny package that turns an MDX directory into a retrieval-ready corpus

streamfield: a small library for AI streams that don't look broken

Building tablesalt: a CSV agent where the answer IS the UI

Building grant-pilot: a multi-turn agent that orchestrates three sub-agents over real federal data

Building fedbench: an LLM eval harness for grounded Q&A

Building fieldops-mcp: designing the tool surface an agent actually uses

Auditing my own portfolio against Next.js 16: what I shipped, what I skipped, and why

Frontend is a discipline, not a stylesheet

What five years from bootcamp to senior taught me

Why I'm not chasing FAANG (and where I think frontend talent is actually moving)