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Honest, hands-on writing about AI agents, engineering leadership, and the weird corners of building software in 2026 — by John Gregoriadis, Principal Engineer in Auckland, NZ.

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2026 50

  1. Compaction keeps the goal, drops the rules ↗
  2. Canaries for the attacks that leave everything running
  3. Hybrid search wins the average, loses the query ↗
  4. It can recite your rule and still break it ↗
  5. TunnelsPart 03
  6. The house
  7. The bridge
  8. The tunnel
  9. Shorten the distance to control
  10. How Many Days of AI Does New Zealand Have?
  11. Prove the Machine Wrong
  12. Ukraine’s Drone Advantage Is an Engineering Loop
  13. I Parsed Every Law New Zealand Has Ever Passed
  14. Policy WhiplashPart 03
  15. Your Show HN dies in 7 hours
  16. The Fastest Repealers in the West
  17. Six Years, $228 Million, Zero Metres of Track
  18. What Happens When a Worm Drives Claude?
  19. The holes that kill you are the ones you never tested
  20. The Laws of Human Nature
  21. Conscious Minimalism
  22. The dent and the crater
  23. I Built a Read-Later Chrome Extension Because Pocket Died
  24. The product market fit gauntlet
  25. Change management
  26. Three Ways to Look at Time
  27. Predicting Crime in AotearoaPart 07
  28. What an hour of your attention is worth
  29. Teaching a Neural Network to Watch Crime Like Video
  30. Open-Source Agent That Teaches Claude Code Your Architecture
  31. Firecracker MicroVM OrchestratorPart 03
  32. Claude Code Can Now Spawn Copies of Itself in Isolated VMs
  33. OpenHealth – Chat with Apple Health Data, Anywhere
  34. The Future of Security Is an Open-Source Model That Detects and Acts on Threats
  35. I Spent 29 Hours Debugging iptables to Boot VMs in 4 Seconds
  36. Can You Beat Last Month?
  37. Claude Code Running Claude Code in 4-Second Disposable VMs
  38. NanoClaw ArchitecturePart 02
  39. Stealing NanoClaw Patterns for Web Apps and SaaS
  40. What if your browser built the UI for you?
  41. What the Data Actually Shows
  42. How I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone
  43. Giving Crime a Place on the Map
  44. Crime as Video
  45. Wrangling a Million Crime Records
  46. Predicting Crime in Aotearoa
  47. NanoClaw's Architecture is a Masterclass in Doing Less
  48. Careers in the Self-Driving Codebase Era
  49. Why LLMs waste half their brain
  50. What if a Worm Could Make AI Agents Smarter?