Root & Reason
Back to School
Prompting couldn't teach a small local model to find its way out of a maze. Fine-tuning a model half its size on a gaming GPU did, and the thing that nearly stopped it was a single word.
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Maze Escape
Three agents, a maze, a notebook each and a radio. I wanted to see whether they could help each other escape.
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One click, one trace
Following a single browser click through two agents, three runtimes and an MCP hop, to see whether OpenTelemetry keeps it in one trace.
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Lost in translation
What Jaeger and Pydantic Logfire made of the same coding-agent telemetry, and how LangSmith, Langfuse and Braintrust compare on paper.
agentsmeasurementobservability
One standard, three dialects
What Claude Code, Codex and Qwen Code send over OpenTelemetry.
agentsmeasurementobservability
Pulling apart AI, .NET, DevOps, infrastructure.
A tech blog about AI, .NET, DevOps, and taking things apart: measured, benchmarked, and written up as it actually happened.