What has my attention right now, and roughly why.
Integration and data-pipeline engineering: CRM workflow automation, ingestion services and scheduled jobs on managed cloud infrastructure, and warehouse-backed reporting behind access control. One of those services is LLM-assisted — it scores call transcripts against a rubric, deterministic checks first, human review after, with the model never given the last word. Categorical on purpose: the interesting part is the shape of the work, not whose it is.
A lossless compression proxy for MCP tool output — 58 percent fewer tokens, with the original forwarded untouched whenever a perfect round trip cannot be proven. Recent work has been on the security edges: credentials must not survive a cross-origin redirect, and a config generator that measures performance is never allowed to overwrite a safety setting. Case study.
A personal knowledge base on Postgres that agents write into by proposal only, with every proposal reviewed before it lands. This quarter it moved off local embeddings onto a sidecar — production image down from 2.14 GB to 442 MB — and shed half its tool surface, because response bytes turned out to be the real constraint, not tool count.
Spatial modeling over fifty thousand Michigan well records, and the contractor-intake business built around it. Depth is predictable from location; yield is not. Both of those are useful to know, and the second one took longer to accept.
Ten machines under Proxmox carrying real routing, monitoring, and backup — plus the recurring lesson that ordering and detection are not controls. A VPN-bound workload gets pinned to the tunnel interface by name, because restarting things in the right order only works until it doesn't.
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