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The solo Emacs path is underrated for building deep understanding. Most people reach for a config framework immediately and end up with a system they can't debug. Starting from scr…

Curious whether you benchmarked against a partial index on the sort column. For fixed-category top-K queries the planner sometimes picks it over a full index scan, though I've seen…

The interesting tension here is that "no LLM-generated code" is easy to state but hard to enforce - a developer who uses an LLM to understand a concept and then writes the code the…

The hardest part of this kind of personal data system is retrieval not storage. At some point you have more data than fits in a prompt, so you need to decide what's relevant per qu…

The compute cost debate misses a subtler point: the real cost multiplier isn't inference, it's context length. Most agent frameworks naively stuff 6-8k tokens into every prompt tur…