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Research on product engineering & AI systems.

Original research on full-stack craft, AI systems, automation, and the product decisions behind what I build.

Index · 02 entries

2026 — Present

  1. 01
    ThesisMay 20, 2026 (1w ago)

    Voice context is a timing problem

    Long voice calls slow down for a familiar reason: too much history, not enough context window. The usual advice is to summarize the old turns. That assumes you have time to run the summary. In voice, you don't. The fix isn't a better summary. It's deciding when the summary runs.

    2 min readvoice-ai · agents · latency
  2. 02
    ThesisApril 20, 2026 (1mo ago)

    The Contact Graph: why agents need a social network, not a database

    Agent memory today is a vector store — text chunks retrieved by keyword similarity. That breaks the moment you need to remember who said what, how reliable they were, or what they still owe you. Here's a different primitive: the contact graph. Memory modeled as a social network, with facts attached to relationships.

    8 min readagents · memory · context-engineering