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Exploring the 'Inner Loop' of AI-driven engineering from Tokyo. Principal Architect at Microsoft, veteran of Amazon & startups. Moving teams from 'vibe coding' to Hypervelocity Engineering—balancing system rigor with agentic orchestration.

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I Killed My Agent Team

Sixteen agents, a year of tuning, and the week I noticed my code reviews had stopped arguing back.

A Juice Cleanse for Your Digital Brain

Memory poisoning persists in AI agents. Hermes, Mem0, Letta, and Zep ship freshness hygiene; none ship decontamination. The case for a frontier-model audit.

Engineers Are Underwriting $4 Trillion of Debt and Don't Know It

The AI build-out is $5.5 trillion of capex riding on depreciation schedules. The engineers shipping distillation tooling are the ones quietly setting them.

Sovereignty Is Not a Compute Bet

Japan put ¥1 trillion behind a homegrown model and 10 million robots by 2040. Everyone scoring it in GPUs is mispricing the bet.

Your LLM Is an Interpreter You Forgot to Compile

The case for compiling the model out of your runtime loop, and paying for live inference only where it earns its place.

There Are No New Engineering Disciplines

In late 2023 I shipped a production RAG system.

Orchestrating an Agentic Crew at Scale

A year ago, I proposed that engineering teams should “start slow” to build the foundations for AI integration.

Hypervelocity Engineering

A Year on the Front Lines