The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
RTK promises dramatic token savings for coding agents, but raw terminal compression is not the same as cheaper, safer, or more accurate software engineering.
I build things and go deep.
Backend engineer with 13+ years in production systems. Currently building AI-powered tools for prediction markets, running a self-hosted homelab that probably has too many containers, and finishing an MSc in AI. Currently into: system engineering, 0-1, LLMs, self-hosting, and whatever I’m figuring out this week because of the rabbit hole I got into.
With Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, creator of Ruby — September 2016
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May 2021
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February 2023
Ruby on Rails is Dead (2026 Edition)
Part 1 of a structural critique of Rails in 2026: the magic that made Rails dominant also became an architectural cage for the stateful, real-time web.
Dear Codebase: A Letter From Your Coding Agent
Ten requests from an agent to the codebase it works in — local reasoning, visible boundaries, one way of doing things. None of them are new. All of them matter more now.
Why I Open-Sourced My Hardened *arr Stack (and What Most Compose Files Get Wrong)
Most self-hosted *arr compose files are ticking time bombs: flat networks, fake kill switches, no health checks. Here is how I built one that actually holds up.
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- Netguru
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- Fresha
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