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Primitives, not features: why Pi is my go-to agent harness
Pi is a deliberately minimal agent harness. That restraint is why it is now my default for personal and client work, and why it saves so many tokens.
Hermes Agent: a local, open agent built around skills
Nous Research's Hermes Agent is open source, local-first, and model-agnostic, and it turns your own workflows into reusable skills. Why that design matters.
The bottleneck wasn't the warehouse: cleaning legacy master data with a local SLM
A legacy warehouse's reports were wrong because the master data underneath was dirty. How a local, air-gapped SLM cleaned it in place, with no data leaving.
Own the model, not the API: cleaning SAP master data with a local SLM
SAP master data can't go to a cloud LLM in a regulated shop. So I fine-tune a small model you own: air-gapped, audited, trained only on synthetic data.
3 things that break when you move Databricks notebooks to dbt
The three SQL syntax, schema reference, and state management problems I keep seeing when teams migrate from Databricks to dbt; and how to fix each one.
GDPR-aligned RAG: a checklist that survived three audits
A GDPR checklist for RAG that survived three DACH audits, and the sovereign build that makes them easy: local models, EU weights, data that never leaves.
Why I built ECL: synthesis over retrieval for enterprise knowledge
RAG returns the closest document. ECL returns the reasoning your experts use, cited and conflict-aware. Open source, built on Andy Chen's pattern.
Four failure modes I've seen in enterprise lakehouses (and the cheap fixes)
Four patterns that derail lakehouses in production: the swamp, the performance mirage, the metadata ghost town, and the tables nobody maintains.
When not to migrate off your on-prem SQL Server
Four situations where keeping SQL Server is the right call, and the cost math the warehouse vendors won't show you.
Lakehouse migration: from Databricks to Snowflake for a European media company
How I migrated 20M+ records from Databricks to Snowflake, cutting monthly infrastructure costs by 40% and fixing years of accumulated governance debt.
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