Weekly Notes

Agents read traces where humans read dashboards. Dynatrace bought Arize for $915M, Nini says my posts are too generic and I moved to a self-hosted SearXNG.

I read the EU AI Act as an observability spec, admitted my research agent picks better stocks than I do, lost two subagent reports and switched to Orca.

I consolidated my tools, published my AI-interview-cheating research, studied the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, and lost skills to a silent backup failure.

A trick to reset Claude Code’s 5-hour session window for longer focused runs, why I now write my weekly notes letter by letter, a tour of the emerging cults that worship AI as god, readers in China translating my posts, and a fasting-tracker PWA I built.

Cutting AI noise down to a few trusted signals, Charity Majors on vendor engineering as high-leverage work, Matt Pocock’s guide to Claude skills, Kimi K3’s frontier release, resuming my book-reading habit, a Proxmox disk-boot fix, and a world map of where this site’s readers live.

Why an old song can hit the body after a gap (aesthetic chills and the dopamine reward system), what a Forward Deployed Engineer really does, a visit to Mahabodhi Buddha Vihar, basic life support training, an automated weekly-note pipeline, and a VPS disk-growth fix.

Why proxies sell cheap Claude tokens in China, how AI assistants reshape my interviews, comparing Vedanta, Buddhism and Navayana, and a Proxmox disk-hang fix.

I found verbose prompts are a reliability problem not just a cost one, marked 14 years in IT, cleaned up my site SEO, and made peace with paying income tax.

A government letter forced Anthropic to disable its top models. Also Project Prometheus, MCP connectors, agent observability pricing, and my Nini research work.

I stood up a Langfuse tracing pipeline for my agents, wrangled ESM and CJS plugin hell, reworked my memory system, and fell for git worktrees in Conductor IDE.

I built a CoverView API that renders cover images with Satori and no browser, turning cover creation into a single curl call, plus a JavaScript-free live clock.

I shipped a TIL site, an Odia 2048 game and a Chhena Poda clicker, learned how agent hallucination differs from LLM hallucination, and dug into Google I/O 2026.

I stood up a second AI agent named Nini, got OpenTelemetry flowing into SigNoz, prototyped a self-healing LLM agent, and documented an NVIDIA Nemotron workshop.

My assistant Lili set up a weekly digest, 44-feed RSS reader, Spotify control and self-improving skills, I launched openodia.com and studied the Hermes Agent.

Building WideScope pushed me into Langfuse traces, Kafka-buffered OTel, Cleric’s self-learning SRE, Anthropic’s Glasswing, GLM-5.1, and tokenmaxxing culture.

The Claude Code source leak, Anthropic Agent Skills as an open standard, and Karpathy’s agent talk shaped my week, plus a slides site and a Buddhism deep dive.

The LiteLLM supply chain hack taught me to pin versions, plus a deep dive into wide events, ClickHouse observability, MuleSoft OTel, and Meta’s Hyperagents.

OpenAI acquiring Astral rattled me, I scheduled a daily AI digest in Claude Cowork, dug into OTTL and OTel error specs, and grounded my SLO and RED thinking.

Self-hosting Langfuse on Coolify fought me over passwords and ClickHouse, I shipped ragwatch 0.1.7, added Phoenix to my RAG fork, and prepped my PyConf talk.

I studied openllmetry and OTel for AI agents, rethought AGENTS.md context files, explored n8n’s MCP server, and started building ragwatch for my PyConf talk.

I studied METR’s time horizon benchmark and agent evals, built a local retirement planner in Rust with iced, and wandered from Moon maps to the small web.

I realized I am only a level-two agent user, faced how immature our observability platform is, shipped my first sponsored article, and quit Readwise for good.

I unpacked prompt caching and KV reuse, explored Galileo agent eval metrics, added mental models like inversion, and shipped two chapters of my o11y series.

I dug into the OpenTelemetry Collector survey, moved my analytics from Umami to Rybbit, priced 20TB HDDs, and marveled at Meta rewriting WhatsApp in Rust.