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I'm David, MTL based.Agentic engineering is what I do.
Head of Delivery & Solutions at Botpress; before that, founder & CTO at Okam. And yes, agents built most of this site: left to my own hands it wouldn't exist. Left to the agents, it ships.
See what I'm buildingTools and repos that caught my eye, logged as I find them.Read this week's edition
- LangWatch ScenarioAn open-source library for testing AI agents in simulated environments. It lets developers define scenarios and evaluate agent behavior.To Test
- OpenComputer Background Agent CloudA platform that provides isolated Linux virtual machine sandboxes for running long-lived background agents, with checkpointing, forking, and runtime resizing.Read Later
- LanceDB Geneva Feature EngineeringDocumentation for Geneva, a feature engineering framework for transforming raw data into features for AI models. It supports distributed processing and user-defined functions (UDFs).Read Later
- Google Research harness2A Google Research software repository named harness2. The provided page metadata does not specify its functionality or intended use.To Test
- LangWatch ScenarioAn open-source library for testing AI agents in simulated environments. It lets developers define scenarios and evaluate agent behavior.To Test
- OpenComputer Background Agent CloudA platform that provides isolated Linux virtual machine sandboxes for running long-lived background agents, with checkpointing, forking, and runtime resizing.Read Later
Arguments I make and stand behind: researched, versioned and citable.
v0.2 · Working draft · Oct 10, 2026
Ghost Decisions
Chaining AI steps can multiply errors or catch them. What decides which way it goes is whether each step's decisions stay open to checking and change, or get locked in and passed downstream as fact.
Read the paper14 min read
Older work, kept as it was written. 4 pieces since 2024.
- Apr 21, 2025Research dossierComparative Analysis of Open-Source vs. Closed-Source AI Memory & Knowledge Graph SolutionsApr 21, 2025 · 49 min read49 min read
- Apr 16, 2025Research dossierComparison of Promptfoo, Langfuse, Optik, and Other Self-Hosted LLM PlatformsApr 16, 2025 · 8 min read8 min read
- Apr 2, 2025Research dossierAI Agent Patterns: A Comprehensive AnalysisApr 2, 2025 · 15 min read15 min read
- Apr 1, 2024Lab pieceBuilding a Database Patterns Explorer with Claude & CursorApr 1, 2024 · 5 min read5 min read