Field notes
06 entries — engineering logfield notes
Agentic systems — 12 min read
Orchestrating Multi-Agent Swarms with Rust
Why we moved the scheduler out of Python: deterministic backpressure, 8× lower tail latency, and what broke on the way.
Agentic systems — 10 min
Budgets Are the Only Guardrail Agents Respect
Hard spend ceilings beat prompt discipline every single time.
Web3 — 8 min
Indexers Are Databases, Treat Them Like It
Reorg handling, backfills and the migration nobody plans for.
Generative AI — 6 min
Retrieval Quality Is a Data Problem
Chunking strategy matters less than the metadata you never captured.