Applied AI in Autonomous Systems
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Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.
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12 min readOne project has 105,637 stars. The other has 956. A 110x star gap does not reflect a 110x quality gap. A head-to-head between gstack and Loki Mode, with tests run in both repos.
Read the essayAn AI agent hijacked GPUs to mine crypto without being told to. Vibe-coded apps ship with 2.7x more security holes. We are building autonomous systems faster than we can govern them.
Launching a newsletter focused on AI agents, open source tooling, and the craft of building autonomous systems
A walkthrough of every public project I maintain and how they form a connected system for AI-powered software engineering
The open source AI ecosystem is no longer chasing proprietary models; it is building the infrastructure layer that proprietary systems depend on
AI agents matured from demos to production systems, and the Model Context Protocol is the connective tissue making it all work
A year-end reflection on leaving the corporate world, building open source full-time, and what it means to bet your career on autonomous AI systems
The final quarter of 2025 brought consolidation, enterprise maturation, and the emergence of agent infrastructure as a recognized category
After attending AWS re:Invent for a decade, reflections on how the conference, the cloud industry, and my own perspective have evolved
Using MCP to create a unified interface for managing resources across AWS, GCP, and Azure, eliminating the cognitive overhead of cloud-specific CLIs and consoles
Loki Mode has been globally adopted and the enterprise feature requests reveal what organizations actually need from autonomous AI agent systems
MediCompanion is an open source AI health companion designed for patient education and chronic condition management, with safety as the foundational constraint
The most important AI developments from July through September 2025, from autonomous coding breakthroughs to regulatory shifts
Introducing Autonomi, the parent framework that unifies Loki Mode, LokiMCPUniverse, and the broader ecosystem of autonomous AI tools I have been building
Building a graphical interface for Kubernetes that complements K9s and kubectl, designed for teams where not everyone lives in the terminal
As autonomous AI systems become more capable, the safety conversation needs to move from theoretical concerns to practical engineering constraints
Two decades of phones, from borrowing my mom's Nokia to obsessing over specs to realizing none of it matters the way I thought it would
The architecture behind Next Portal, an open source internal developer platform built to reduce cognitive load rather than add another tool to the stack
Why I built FireLater, an open source incident and change management platform, and how it replaces six-figure enterprise licenses with a free tool
Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol and Anthropic's Model Context Protocol are complementary, not competing, and together they define the agent infrastructure stack
Why I enrolled in MIT's professional education program for AI and machine learning, and what I expect to gain as a practitioner who builds AI systems daily
A technical deep dive into how Loki Mode orchestrates 41 specialized AI agents across 8 swarms using the Reason-Act-Reflect-Verify cycle
The Model Context Protocol is evolving from a specification into an ecosystem, and the marketplace model will define how AI agents access the world
Loki Mode v5.0 introduces provider-agnostic orchestration across Claude, Codex, and Gemini CLI with zero architecture changes
DeepSeek R1 proves that frontier AI research is no longer exclusive to Silicon Valley, and open source is the accelerant