The Runtime Nobody Talks About
14 min read
The hard part of agentic AI is not the model or the prompt. It is the runtime infrastructure — the orchestration layer that makes agent execution reliable, observable, and governable at scale.
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32 Tests, Zero Dollars: Visual E2E Testing with a VLM Running on My Laptop
20 min readI replaced a broken Playwright setup with a vision-language model that looks at screenshots and tells me if the UI is right. 32 tests, 10 minutes, running entirely on Apple Silicon. No cloud. No flaky CI. No bill.
Zak's Law of Skill Half-Life and Why Your Next Framework Won't Save You
8 min readEvery layer of abstraction we build is another layer AI will eat. The only durable skills are the ones closest to bedrock — and bedrock keeps sinking deeper. A law for navigating the great skill compression of our time.