Archive - Engineering Ideas

The personal AI platform: technical blueprint

Pocketbase and LanceDB for extensible personal AI data plane and system of record

Sep 9

July 2025

AI agency architecture-in-the-large: the relevant levels of abstraction

The "agent framework" level is just one among dozens of relevant architecture levels for AI agents.

Jul 28

Trace LLM workflows at your app's semantic level, not at the OpenAI API boundary

The data architecture for provider-agnostic reproducibility and experiments with LLM agents and workflows

Jul 11

June 2025

Personal agents

Jun 17

January 2025

Architecture theory and the hourglass model

Everyone is talking about AI agent architectures, frameworks, and protocols at the moment.

Jan 8

October 2024

Differential knowledge interconnection

This post is a reply to Eugene Kirpichov's post on Linkedin. Eugene writes that contributing to general AI and information processing capabilities…

Oct 12, 2024

September 2024

Table transfer protocols: improved Arrow Flight and alternative to Iceberg

This article is the ultimate one in the five-piece series:

Sep 7, 2024

Table Write protocol for interop between diverse OLAP databases and processing engines

In the previous article, I argued that there is an opportunity for creating a new family of protocols: table transfer protocols, namely Table Read and…

Sep 4, 2024

August 2024

Table transfer protocols for universal access to OLAP databases

Update: for the overview of table transfer protocols, see the following article.

Aug 26, 2024

July 2024

The future of OLAP table storage is not Iceberg

Jul 30, 2024

simplicity/acc: Why We Must End Human Programming Jobs

Software engineers often gravitate towards projects with minimal non-software components and minimal direct interaction with the real world.

Jul 15, 2024

May 2024

The two-tiered society

On AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us With Daron Acemoglu

May 13, 2024

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