theredbeard.hashnode.devHow programmers get disqualified from doing everything elseBeing able to program is one of the few skills that can make you be seen as less than what you are. I have been a product manager, project manager, SCRUM master and product owner, usability and requi12h ago·5 min read
theredbeard.hashnode.devProjection Memory, or why your agent feels like a glorified cronjobEvery agent framework has some form of memory: LangChain has three types, Mem0 raised $24M building a "memory layer," and Letta built an entire company around persistent agent state. The result is that agents are pretty decent nowadays at remembering...2d ago·9 min read
theredbeard.hashnode.devI Intercepted 3,177 API Calls Across 4 AI Coding Tools. Here's What's Actually Filling Your Context Window.Last week I asked Claude to fix a one-line bug. It used 23,000 tokens. Then I asked Gemini to fix the same bug. It used 350,000 tokens. Yeah I couldn't just let that slide. So I built Context Lens, a context tracer that intercepts LLM API calls and s...Feb 19·12 min read
theredbeard.hashnode.devAre We Becoming QA for the Machine?I was calmly yelling at my CLI because the button wasn't the same green as stated in CODE_STANDARDS.md, and I realized I wasn't building an app, I've spent the last hours only testing it. I recently built my first real application almost entirely wit...Feb 18·4 min read
