AI & agents

27 articles filed under AI & agents.

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Jun 18, 2026

My agent kept losing facts it had already saved

AIdaemon could save a fact and then fail to find it when I asked for it. Semantic search ranks by what's on the same topic, so the short fact holding the real answer gets buried under wordier ones nearby. A reranker reads each candidate against the question and puts the right one back on top.

AI & agents

Jun 8, 2026

13 min read

Local Gemma was too slow with AIdaemon until I fixed llama.cpp and the prompt size

I wanted AIdaemon on local Gemma 4 26B through llama.cpp, not Ollama. Generation ran at ~45 tok/s on an M4 Pro. Agent turns still felt stuck because prefill on 14k-token prompts took 8 to 9 seconds before the model wrote a single word.

AI & agents

May 20, 2026

12 min read

How production-grade AI agents actually work

A plain-English walkthrough of the control plane, tool plane, memory, guardrails, sub-agents, and observability behind production-grade AI agents.

AI & agents

May 15, 2026

3 min read

How to work with any generative AI

Switching from ChatGPT to Claude to Gemini to Grok, or to any open source model, shouldn't mean relearning how to prompt, what to trust, and what's safe to hand off. Under the hood they share the same handful of traits, and the same few habits get good results from all of them.

AI & agents

May 14, 2026

2 min read

Skills, CLAUDE.md, subagents, hooks, or MCP, when to use which

Claude Code has five customization layers. Pick the wrong one and you get a Skill that never fires, a hook doing subagent work, or a CLAUDE.md so bloated it eats half your context before you type. Here's where each one belongs.

AI & agentsDeveloper tools

May 3, 2026

5 min read

How to keep multiple coding agents from overwriting each other

The practical workflow I use for parallel AI coding agents: one worktree per agent, one branch per task, clear file ownership, protected main, and shared instructions through AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.

AI & agentsDeveloper tools

Apr 29, 2026

5 min read

Choosing Between CLI and MCP for Your AI Agent Workflows

After a year of building agent workflows, I've learned when CLI makes sense versus when MCP is worth the investment. Here's my decision framework.

AI & agentsDeveloper tools

Apr 18, 2026

6 min read

How to turn a website into an MCP server

A concrete walkthrough of how I turned davidloor.com into an MCP server that Claude Desktop and Cursor can query. The tools, the Cloudflare Worker setup, the gotchas, and what to expose.

AI & agentsCloudflare

Mar 25, 2026

6 min read

How I built RFP Search, an AI-powered RFP aggregator

I built an automated platform that scrapes 11 government and nonprofit RFP sources nightly, uses Llama 3.1 to extract structured data, and serves it all from Cloudflare Workers.

AI & agentsCloudflare

Mar 15, 2026

5 min read