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Chasing the Perfect Project: How I Escaped Scope Creep and Rebuilt The Foundry
Trying to build the 'perfect' open-source project to gain stars and build a community can easily become a scope-creep trap. Here is how testing my CLI tool in a constrained work environment forced me to strip away the bloat and build something genuinely useful.
The Great Context Trap: Why Your AI Memory is Broken (And How to Fix It)
We are bleeding our project context to cloud providers every time we open a new chat window. Discover how the Foundry ecosystem and the Model Context Protocol enable portable, sovereign AI memory that finally puts you back in control.
The Next AI Battlefield Isn't Intelligence. It's TPS.
The era of chasing 'smarter' AI is over. As foundational models hit the point of diminishing returns, the real competitive advantage has shifted to high-speed inference and semantic governance.
The Word for AI's Worst Output Is Slop
Code that works but is structurally wrong is the silent killer of AI-assisted projects. Discover how moving from prompt-based instructions to governance-as-a-service, or the Foundry, eliminates AI-generated slop.
A Portfolio That Grew Into a Blog: Rebuilding on Next.js
Discover how I transformed my static portfolio into a server-side rendered blog using an AI-orchestrated fleet. I detail the architecture, the governance layer, and the surprising economic reality of using multi-agent workflows for framework migrations.
From Dashboard to Dispatch: Redesigning tedward.net
After a year of 'temporary' design, tedward.net has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. This redesign moves away from the static dashboard model to an editorial-first platform that reflects my weekly focus on AI engineering.
The Foundry Update: Architecting Multi-Agent Intelligence
After a total overhaul of The Foundry, I am shifting my strategy. By focusing on granular model selection and graph-based codebase management, I am prioritising organic adoption over a premature public release.