Local models, coding agents, MCP, and AWS architecture
Everything I’ve written is on this page, newest first: local models and the homelab they run on, coding agents, MCP servers, and the AWS architecture I do for a living in Melbourne.
New here? Try local models in mid-2026, herding parallel agents, or building lgtmaybe.
Writing
2026
- herdr vs cmux, after two months on each
- Reviewing code you didn't write
- Where I run my coding agents, and why it depends on the box
- Designing MCP tools for agents
- Why local models get stuck repeating JSON
- Pydantic AI structured outputs and evals on Bedrock
- Building and securing MCP servers with FastMCP
- Skills or MCP servers: when you need a server
- Anchoring specs to code with ast-grep
- Breaking In
- The shapeshifting engineer
- Local models in mid-2026: the engineering that closed the gap
- Herding parallel agents on a remote box with herdr
- Building lgtmaybe: a PR reviewer for any model
