Thoughts on software architecture, AI/ML systems, production engineering, and building products as a solo founder.
A free MIT CLI that scans a repo for seven classes of AI-agent-gateway anti-patterns — tool-access/RBAC, fail-close, supply-chain pinning, observability, multi-LLM routing, secrets, production-readiness — runs as a CI gate, and exposes itself as an MCP server.
When one team adds a request header, the backend CORS allowlist becomes a coordination point. Here is what that tax actually costs, why it fails silently, and four patterns for handling it.
Four runtime events, four policy-attachment surfaces, and the hook coverage at each event is what separates a demo from something a regulated buyer will sign for. Framework selection is a distraction.
A production-ready MCP server that makes working with large files in Claude Desktop and AI assistants effortless — smart chunking by file type, line-level navigation, regex search, and streaming for files up to 10 GB.