// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN
Automation
PicoClaw: Building AI Assistants That Run on $10 Hardware
Data & Knowledge
SurrealDB: The Multi-Model Database That Wants to Replace Your Entire Backend
AI Agents
Progressive Disclosure for AI Agents: How pydantic-ai-skills Cuts Token Costs
Data & Knowledge
Nightwire: Building an AI-Powered Development Workflow Through Signal's Encrypted Messaging
Data & Knowledge
PageIndex: Why This RAG System Ditches Vector Databases for Tree-Based Reasoning
AI Dev Tools
Smart Connections: How Obsidian Gets Semantic Search Without Breaking Mobile
AI Agents
OpenFang: The 32MB Rust Binary That Runs Autonomous Agents Without Prompting
AI Agents
IronCurtain: Treating AI Agents Like Untrusted Binaries
Developer Tools
Building Financial AI Agents with Claude: Anthropic's Dual-Deployment Architecture
Developer Tools
VoiceInk: Building a Privacy-First Voice Transcription System with On-Device Whisper
LLM Engineering
RuVector: The Rust Vector Database That Rewrites Its Own Index
AI Dev Tools