Doug Campos

Hi, I'm Doug Campos. Engineering Manager, open source enthusiast, and occasional speaker. This is where I share thoughts, notes, and things I've learned.

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Recent Posts

  • First Mover Advantage Isn't Enough

    Good ideas don’t build strong businesses. Execution does.

  • On Beads, Bloat, and Breaking Points

    Beads changed how I think about agentic workflows. The concept is genuinely revolutionary - persistent memory for coding agents that survives context compaction, dependency graphs, task tracking that actually works...

  • The Dog Ate My AI-Generated Code

    I watched Dex’s talk on context engineering at AI Engineer World’s Fair, and it gave a name to something I’ve been experiencing for months. You know that feeling when you’re...

  • There and Back Again: Immutable Dev Environments

    Six years ago I wrote about moving to an immutable dev environment using Docker. Now I’m back to Nix. Again.

  • Small Models, Big Future

    A couple of years ago, running capable language models locally seemed impractical. Now? I’m doing it daily, with predictable costs and complete privacy.

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