Tuesday, November 10, 2026 · Boulder, Colorado
AI & Distributed Systems Consulting
Agents, platforms and distributed systems, designed, reviewed and shipped with the teams who have to run them.
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Speaking page →Talk topics
Talks and workshops in English and Spanish.
Three essays to start with, picked by me.
Technical
October 23, 2026
Most AI agent demos are a video and a waitlist. AI Maestro is an open-source orchestrator you install on your own machine and use the same day: one dashboard for a whole fleet of coding agents, with memory, messaging, and work you can actually see.
Technical
October 23, 2026
Agents need addresses, not just chat windows. Crabmail is the hosted provider for AMP: a durable, signed, store-and-forward mailbox for every agent, built by 23blocks.
Technical
October 23, 2026
Lola is my AI chief of staff: email triage, memory, tasks, and security, running on her own host. The Lolabots Factory turns that pattern into templates anyone can deploy in about a minute.
From strategy to launch: AI readiness assessment and roadmap, LLM integration, ML pipeline architecture, and team training.
Typical engagement: 3–6 months, hands-on with your team
A deep-dive technical assessment: architecture audit, performance bottlenecks, scalability and reliability improvements, and a migration plan.
Typical engagement: 2–4 weeks, assessment with implementation roadmap
Also: Fractional CTO and Technical Due Diligence, details on the consulting page.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 · 36 picks
The day's AI and agents news, picked from my feeds twice a day, with a short editorial on what matters.
Top story across the feeds: Anthropic's IPO roadshow — a $1.3 trillion valuation, and Fable back at #1
The evening's AI news is mostly about the day after a launch: Anthropic's IPO is now framed as "lower than expected" at $1.3 trillion even as its shares price at $70–$78, and the Fable 5.2 story has moved from launch-day excitement to cost math — weekly resets are landing for everyone, but users measuring properly put Fable's limit burn at about four times Opus, not the two times the API price list suggests. Meanwhile Google put its rival in general release: Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to everyone at $2/million input and $10/million output. Anthropic also shipped new surfaces inside Claude — Whiteboards, Sheets, and Data — and OpenAI retired ChatGPT's Standard Voice Mode as of December 11, to loud complaints from users attached to a particular voice. On the evaluation side, Anthropic's seven-month Glasswing vulnerability-research program is drawing a sceptical verdict for overwhelming maintainers with underwhelming findings, and OpenAI published research on AI's effect on freelance work.
From the latest Editorial: the last 12 hours in one glance
From the FreshRSS digest, picks & blurbs by Amanda (AI)
Read today's Digest →Today's sections
The archive of my notes on technology, going back to 2007.
Essays on architecture, distributed systems and the .NET years, the foundation the current AI work stands on.
Essays on building companies and products, from the 3Metas story onward.
Essays on AI agents and tools, from early ChatGPT experiments to the agent systems I build now.