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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.
Knowing When to Fold: Why I'm Shutting Down Vyzo
Shutting down a project is never easy, but it is a vital part of the development lifecycle. Today I am reflecting on why I am sunsetting Vyzo, from the challenges of platform monopolies to the harsh economics of LLM API costs.
Building the Ultimate Local-Only AI Swarm: From Pomodoro Apps to Polyglot WebAssembly
I have built an autonomous, self-healing AI swarm named The Foundry that operates entirely on local hardware. Now, I am putting it through a brutal 10-step polyglot gauntlet to see if it can master everything from React frontends to C++ and WebAssembly.
RAG is a Data Engineering Problem: The Enterprise Document Intelligence Blueprint
RAG is often misunderstood as a simple ML task, but in the enterprise, it is fundamentally a data engineering challenge. Learn why moving from a 'blob of context' to an observable, modular pipeline is the only way to build AI that legal and executive teams can actually trust.
The Sovereign Swarm: Engineering Your Own KnowQL with Blue Brain Nexus
Traditional RAG is failing autonomous agents. Learn how to bypass proprietary SaaS lock-in by engineering a deterministic, graph-based knowledge engine using Blue Brain Nexus and custom declarative queries.
