Agent is Model plus Harness: Getting to Know Nexo
Building a read-only email triage agent with Nexo, the new Ruby AI agent harness, one capability at a time across a multi-post series.
Writing on software design, Ruby on Rails development, and AI convergence.
Where I share what I'm exploring in software development, Ruby on Rails, AI, and everything in between.
Testing GLM-5.2 on a Real Rails Upgrade
I used GLM-5.2 via Ollama Cloud and Oh-My-Pi to drive a Rails 6.1 to 8.1 upgrade — removing Node, moving to SQLite, and what the open model got right.
Building Modern Rails UI Without a JavaScript Framework
How Hotwire — Turbo Frames, Streams, full-page morph, and Stimulus — covers most of what a JavaScript framework was required for, and which tool to reach for.
Fragua: An AI Harness for Building Software with Rails
Why I'm building Fragua — a Rails app that orchestrates AI agents through the whole arc of building software, with the work kept visible throughout.
How I Built a Memory Layer for My AI Coding Sessions
Why I built recuerd0, a context memory layer for AI coding agents, on SQLite and FTS5 full-text search instead of embeddings, vector databases, or RAG.