# anvil (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover anvil. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Annotated Blake’s 7 - 1979](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-blakes-7-1979) _2026-08-16 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ Warm leatherette ## [The Annotated Blake’s 7 - Goodbye Series B](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-blakes-7-goodbye-series) _2026-08-15 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ Life Without Roj ## [The Model Was the Same. The Serving Configuration Was Not.](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/qwen38-one-model-four-configurations/) _2026-08-14 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ I ran official Qwen3.8 27B BF16 and FP8 side by side, then changed one serving knob at a time. The fastest result was not the whole story. ## [The Annotated Blake’s 7 -‘Star One’ Special Extra](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-blakes-7-star-one-special) _2026-08-10 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ My questions answered! ## [The Annotated Prisoner - Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling 2](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-prisoner-do-not-forsake-817) _2026-08-09 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ Seltzman’s snappy snaps ## [What Wins in a Benchmark Is Not What You Ship](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/what-wins-in-a-benchmark-is-not-what-you-ship/) _2026-08-04 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ The best long-context profile I measured passed every synthetic gate and crashed twice under real traffic. Here is why promotion has to be a guarded transaction, not a config edit. ## [A Card That Made Me Sign a Letter](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/deepseek-0731-and-my-ai-system-upgrade/) _2026-08-03 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Why I added a second RTX PRO 6000, upgraded my CPU, and then watched DeepSeek 0731 land on the exact card I just bought. ## [The Annotated Blake’s 7 - ‘Star One’ 4](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-blakes-7-star-one-4) _2026-08-02 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ Wishing well, crocodile cheers ## [Let's make the worst htmx ever!](https://zserge.com/posts/worst-htmx-ever/) _2026-07-27 · zserge's blog_ This is a continuation of a series of posts about building tiny “clones” of popular web frameworks. Web is changing rapidly, and so the tools we use to build web apps (yet, I’m sincerely happy that my React/Vue posts are now seven years old, and those frameworks are still popular and relevant). Today the hot topic is htmx, basically a frontend library for backend developers who… ## [The Annotated Prisoner - ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling’ 1](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-prisoner-do-not-forsake) _2026-07-26 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ Janet, Janet, who the f\*\*\* is Janet ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UAphMIE7BmEX) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [The Annotated Blake’s 7 - ‘Star One’ 3](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-blakes-7-star-one-3) _2026-07-19 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ Everybody needs good neighbours ## [Tensor is the might](https://zserge.com/posts/tensor/) _2026-07-14 · zserge's blog_ Every good abstraction solves a problem, and this post will cover everything I know so far about a brilliant math abstraction - tensors. Neural networks, from a simple 2-layer MLP to GPT-5, all boil down to the same thing: floating-point numbers flowing through a graph of operations. This post builds a complete, accelerated tensor library from scratch in C. It is heavily inspired by… ## [The Annotated Prisoner - Summer 1967](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-prisoner-summer-1967) _2026-07-12 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ Everybody knows there’s nothing doing ## [The Task Is Not the Unit of Work](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/the-task-is-not-the-unit-of-work/) _2026-07-11 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ A 41-task graph ran for 41 hours, produced 115 reviews, and merged nothing. Then I pivoted mid-flight to milestones, and the same session shipped five PRs in half the time. ## [The Annotated Blake’s 7 - ‘Star One’ 2](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-blakes-7-star-one-2) _2026-07-05 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ To speak to an operator, press \* 1 ## [Structurally Valid Is Not Good Enough: Why My Model Router Measures Quality](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/anvil-serving-local-where-its-proven/) _2026-07-02 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ anvil-serving routes coding-agent work to local models only where measured quality has earned it, verifies local output, and escalates up the tier ladder the moment verification fails. ## [The Model Name Is Just a String](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/the-model-name-is-just-a-string/) _2026-07-02 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ How wiring two mismatched GPUs into my coding harnesses turned into intent-based routing, and why the measurement, not the transport, became the product. ## [How to Take an 11 Month Sabbatical](https://www.zacsweers.dev/how-to-take-an-11-month-sabbatical/) _2026-06-29 · Zac Sweers · Zac Sweers_ A sequel to the last one , but a bit longer. On Leaving Slack After nearly 6 years, I left Slack in August of 2025. It was for a combination of reasons that added up to "it's time". The biggest reason was that Salesforce (who acquired Slack ## [The Annotated Prisoner - ‘Many Happy Returns’ 3](https://theculturebunker.substack.com/p/the-annotated-prisoner-many-happy-80b) _2026-06-28 · Gareth Roberts · The Culture Bunker_ Back on the chain gang ## [A Billion Tokens to Ship One Feature. Forty-Six Million Were Real.](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/a-billion-tokens-forty-six-million-real/) _2026-06-27 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Two days of autonomous agents shipped a release and moved a billion tokens. Only about five percent was generated work. That five percent is the number that sizes a local box. ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WT10MwzUeK7F) _2026-06-26 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [I Bet on Owning My Own Substrate](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/owning-my-own-substrate/) _2026-06-27 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Why I built a dual-GPU workstation and stood up local model serving, and why owning the durable layer is the bet I am most glad I made. ## [I Said 'Report in the Morning' and Went to Sleep. It Shipped a Release.](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/report-in-the-morning/) _2026-06-24 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ I handed an agent a goal and one sentence, then slept. 23.7 hours of unattended runtime later, Anvil v0.3.0 was on PyPI. Here is what it woke me for, and what it shouldn't have. ## [Status Is Downstream of Proof: The Architecture of Anvil](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/status-is-downstream-of-proof/) _2026-06-24 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ An agent reported a test it never wrote. That gap is the whole reason Anvil exists, now open source as anvil-state on PyPI. Here is the architecture, and the one part still unsolved. ## [Introducing Kempt](https://www.zacsweers.dev/introducing-kempt/) _2026-06-23 · Zac Sweers · Zac Sweers_ Formatting should be boring, in the best possible way. ## [I Rebuilt My Crew on a New Runtime. Only the Ledger Survived.](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/only-the-ledger-survived/) _2026-06-21 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ I ported a nine-agent crew from one harness to another. The orchestration had to be rebuilt. The ledger moved untouched. That gap is the whole product. ## [I Didn't Need a Bigger Computer. I Needed Room to Think.](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/usable-context/) _2026-06-21 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ A single 5090 could run three local agents. It just couldn't give them room to work. The story of the VRAM wall, the three ways out I priced, and the upgrade I actually made. ## [Volume Goes Local. Stakes Go to the Cloud.](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/volume-local-stakes-cloud/) _2026-06-21 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ The question that routes an agent task is not which model is best. It is what the task can afford to get wrong. How I pinned a nine-agent crew across a cloud frontier tier and a local GPU. ## [I Bought a GPU to Run My Own Agents. Then I Red-Teamed the Plan.](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/i-bought-a-gpu-to-run-my-own-agents/) _2026-06-20 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Maxing my AI plans and fighting rate limits, I split the spend across providers, bought a local GPU for overflow, and designed a pull queue for my agents. Then I red-teamed the plan. ## [Everyone Grew the Same Eye: A Field Guide to the Spec-Driven Wave](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/field-guide-to-the-spec-driven-wave/) _2026-06-16 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Spec Kit, Kiro, Tessl, task-master, BMAD, Agent OS, OpenSpec: seven projects, twelve months, one idea. A field guide to who's building what, and why they converged. Part 2. ## [The Newest Idea in AI Coding Is Forty Years Old](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/spec-driven-development-older-than-the-hype/) _2026-06-16 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Spec-driven development feels like a 2025 invention. It isn't: it's literate programming, MDA, TLA+, BDD, and Terraform's desired state in a hoodie. Part 1 of a series. ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YXEN7LbcWtLD) _2026-06-15 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Where the Wave Breaks: The Layer Nobody Wants to Build](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/where-the-spec-driven-wave-breaks/) _2026-06-16 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Every spec-driven tool stops at the same place: a great document handed to an agent, and trust. The layer they skip (durable state, leases, evidence) is the hard part. Part 3. ## [The Anvil, Not the Hammers: Where fakoli-state Goes Next](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/fakoli-state-the-anvil/) _2026-06-10 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ I had an agent system audit my agent system against the field. The verdict: the orchestration is being commoditized. The moat is the boring, durable state layer. ## [Reading Other People's Bug Trackers: The Bets Behind fakoli Are Getting Called](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/reading-other-peoples-bug-trackers/) _2026-06-10 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ I mined four hundred GitHub issues from the tools next to mine. The field's pain validated the bets — and Anthropic shipping agent teams natively confirmed the biggest one. ## [A non-coding coding agent](https://zserge.com/posts/socreates/) _2026-05-25 · zserge's blog_ We love coding agents. They can build a full-featured SaaS and potentially make you a millionaire if you leave them running overnight with the right prompt. They will burn your GPU or your budget, include a few unprompted vulnerabilities, will bloat your code risking your sanity once you start debugging it, will put emojis in your comments, and will ultimately make you question your life choices.… ## [The Fakoli Style: An Operating Model for Building With Agents](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/the-fakoli-style/) _2026-05-01 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Three plugins, four invariants, one principle. What I built isn't a toolkit — it's an operating model for serious development with AI coding agents. ## [🚇 Metro is Stable](https://www.zacsweers.dev/metro-is-stable/) _2026-04-27 · Zac Sweers · Zac Sweers_ New here? Metro is a multiplatform, compile-time dependency injection framework for Kotlin implemented as a compiler plugin. Metro 1.0.0 is out now and stable . This means that its runtime APIs (runtime, MetroX artifacts, Gradle plugin, etc.) are now API-stable unless annotated with an experimental annotation. This ## [Plan, Claim, Apply: Building fakoli-state](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/building-fakoli-state/) _2026-04-24 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ A local-first project-state layer in SQLite, with claims that have heartbeats and evidence captured by hooks. Here's how it was built and which trade-offs I'm still living with. ## [State Is the Product: What Agentic Workflows Were Missing](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/state-is-the-product/) _2026-04-19 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Workflow orchestration alone won't save you. The thing that breaks first when you run real multi-agent work is the state — and almost nobody is building that layer. ## [Building the Engine: Architecture of a Durable Agentic Execution System](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/baara-building-the-engine/) _2026-04-05 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ A 10-package monorepo, 27 MCP tools, checkpoint-based durability, and three sandbox types. The full blueprint for Baara Next. ## [Intent Should Be Durable: The Missing Layer Between Agent SDKs and Production Systems](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/baara-intent-should-be-durable/) _2026-04-05 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Agent SDKs give you tools and reasoning. They don't give you queues, checkpoints, or crash recovery. That gap is where your intent dies. ## [From Pressing Buttons to Intent-Driven Flow](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/intent-driven-agentic-flow/) _2026-04-04 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ How I went from managing AI agent context windows by hand to building an orchestration system that lets me describe what I want and walk away. ## [Teaching AI Agents to Work Like a Team (Not a Crowd)](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/fakoli-crew-agent-archetypes/) _2026-03-25 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ What I learned building specialized agent archetypes that coordinate through file ownership, wave execution, and structured handoffs. ## [VisiCalc reconstructed](https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/) _2026-03-15 · zserge's blog_ VisiCalc Spreadsheets rule the world for almost half of a century. I strongly believe that it’s one of the best UXs ever created. Being fairly minimal and easy to learn, it allows users to quickly manipulate data, describe logic, visualise results, or even create art and run GameBoy games. It all started in 1979 when Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet… ## [From Cloud Infrastructure to AI Infrastructure: What Transfers and What Doesn't](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/infrastructure-engineer-to-ai-architect/) _2026-03-10 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ After twenty years building cloud platforms, here's what I've learned about bridging into AI infrastructure, and which skills matter more than you'd expect. ## [I have two passing tests](https://www.zacsweers.dev/i-have-two-passing-tests/) _2026-03-08 · Zac Sweers · Zac Sweers_ which isn't many, but it's two more than I had yesterday ## [Why I Rebuilt My AI Assistant From Scratch (And What the Analysis Told Me)](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/building-a-personal-ai-gateway/) _2026-03-05 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ How a structured competitive analysis of my own code convinced me that a clean-room rewrite was the right call, and what I learned building Nexus. ## [Two Pillars of (Engineering) Management](https://www.zacsweers.dev/two-pillars-of-engineering-management/) _2026-03-03 · Zac Sweers · Zac Sweers_ A former colleague once described their view of management as a role measured by two\* pillars. As an IC, I really like this framing of it and it's helped me a ton of times in knowing how to best work with different types of EMs over the years. ## [Metro 0.11.0 and MEEPs!](https://www.zacsweers.dev/metro-0-11-0-and-meeps/) _2026-02-25 · Zac Sweers · Zac Sweers_ Metro 0.11.0 is out now and it's a fun milestone in Metro's development. Up to this point most of the work in Metro has been focused around the foundation, interop, and frankly feature parity. It's in a really good place on that ## [Re: Dependency Injection vs. Service Locators](https://www.zacsweers.dev/re-dependency-injection-vs-service-locators/) _2026-02-20 · Zac Sweers · Zac Sweers_ This is a port of a write-up I did in the Kotlin Lang slack here in response to the question "Dagger vs. Hilt vs. Koin vs. Metro vs. \. Serious question: Are there any compelling reasons to switch from Koin to Metro in a ## [Documentation Is Infrastructure (Just Made of Text Instead of Routers)](https://sekoudoumbouya.com/blog/documentation-as-infrastructure/) _2026-02-15 · Sekou M. Doumbouya - Technical Insights_ Why the blueprint document I wrote for our AWS organization might be the highest-leverage thing I shipped that year.