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notes on building backend systems — with and without AI in the loop.

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2026-07-07
the paper promised 16×. my cache already had 9×.
a paper said i could cut time-to-first-token by 16×. before rebuilding my inference stack to get it, i spent an afternoon measuring what i already had. a short story about phase 0.
2026-06-15
svadhyay — an AI tutor on a stack i fully control
three months, solo, no third-party AI APIs. why self-hosting was the whole point — and what it cost.
2026-05-15
how i actually ship with AI
not a prompting guide. a loop, a few rules, and what i refuse to delegate.