Technical
Inside my Dark Factory hardware stack: 48 Agent Pods on 2019 Mini-PCs
Inside my dark factory hardware fleet: 6 mini-PCs, 48 pod slots, why a 2.6x faster Zen 4 CPU only runs CI 1.17x faster, and why AWS costs $20k-$33k/year.
Recent Entries
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Teaching My Dark Factory to Dream: From Agent Telemetry to Self-Healing Code
Why I deleted 6,000 lines of LLM friction-counting in Leaf and replaced them with SQL flags, an Analyst agent, and a daily Dream pass.
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Pruning Agent Prompts: Why I Cut My Factory's Rules by 65%
Post-mortem fixes bloated my dark factory's agent prompts to 17,072 words in 30 days. See what happened when I cut 65% of the rules and moved them to code.
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Agentic Security Scanning: What Our First Loop Found
How I built an autonomous security loop in Leaf with Trivy, Semgrep, and an examiner agent, and what its first 289 findings fixed in BrandCast.
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Moneyball for AI Agents: Stop Buying Models, Buy Runs
After 15.8 billion tokens and 208,649 model turns in Leaf, SWE-bench and static price routers like LiteLLM optimize for the wrong thing. Buy runs, not models.