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Aug 18, 2026
August 18 - the agent platform, described in one place for once
I have been building an agent platform on my own hardware one post at a time. This is the whole thing in one place: how a job gets dispatched, which model runs it, and what it has to prove before I believe it.
Aug 7, 2026
August 7 - the prompt budget that could only get worse
Every mode of my study assistant returned a server error before the model was ever called. The context packet's fixed part had grown past the safety limit on its own, and one unbounded field guaranteed it would keep growing. The fix went into the shared layer three different callers depend on, with caps chosen by measurement and a degrade path before any error.