Updates

Follow my progress, wins, and face-plants as I build in the open.

• A long overdue update

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  Life took me from Seattle to rural Mississippi, where I'm rebuilding a workshop and getting back to work on Mnemonic.

• Phase 2 is done

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  The planned decomposition of Mnemonic into five separate repos is complete. Three more phases to go.

• Agents have their own space!

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  Moved agents and Claude Code related stuff into its own repo for a cleaner workflow.

• A Slight Course Correction

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  I've realized Mnemonic is more than a CLI -- it's a platform.

• Engineering Handbook Integration

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  Distilled engineering handbook standards into 11 queryable guidelines for architect agents.

• Phase 1 Step A Complete

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  Finished the first step of the MVP implementation plan and captured key learnings in the DevOps agent's knowledge base.

• Holidays are over

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  A Claude Code crash proved my setup works, but exposed a deeper problem -- non-deterministic agent routing.

• Building otelx with Agent Collaboration

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  How specialist agents helped build a Go telemetry library through iterative code reviews and cross-concern collaboration.

• Fine tuning the DevOps agent

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  I found gaps in the DevOps agent's build patterns and created a project to fix them.

• Agent Quality Improvements

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  Added Docker build verification and container testing to the Go DevOps agent.

• Two steps forward

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  I hit some milestones yesterday, but ran into some self-inflicted issues with Cognee.

• Switched to OpenAI

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  I've switched from using Ollama to OpenAI for embeddings and LLM for Cognee.