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Ege Vusal Chelebi · AI Engineering Blog

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Essays on AI agents, context engineering, local-first software, developer tools, memory systems, and applied research.

Ingestion debt

20 Jul 2026

AI made generating text free. Understanding got more expensive. What 44 papers say about the gap, and the loop that closes it.

The second brain needs a schema

11 Jul 2026

Google's Open Knowledge Format names a lesson I learned when multiple agents began writing to the same repo. Portable files are not enough. A second brain compounds only when every writer shares a

The agent native home

5 Jul 2026

I reset my Mac and rebuilt my agent-native development environment from zero. What survived is small. A git repo, one memo every agent reads at session start, and a discipline about context. Less

Vaulted - secrets your agent never sees

3 Jul 2026

Vaulted is a local-first .env and secrets manager that keeps ciphertext on your machine and injects plaintext into your app through one hardened Rust path. It is MCP-native, so a coding agent can run

CompanyOS - Jira for your agents

28 Jun 2026

For thirty years a project tracker was a thing a person kept in sync by hand. That busywork is your agents' job now, and they need a durable environment to do it in, not a chat window that forgets.

Folio - who said what

9 Jun 2026

Folio is a meeting recorder for macOS that runs Whisper and pyannote on-device, labels every speaker, and writes Markdown to your vault. No cloud, no telemetry, no audio leaving your Mac. Here is how

The 95% failure rate is not about the models

17 May 2026

5% of enterprise AI projects deliver value. The number has not moved through three generations of frontier models. The operational layer is the moat, and context engineering is the discipline that

I cloned my advisory board

9 May 2026

meclis. Three named thinkers arguing in your browser. The consulting bundle, unbundled.

The next sessions

24 Apr 2026

Why AI memory is a compounding problem, not a retrieval problem. Files beat databases.

Ears without eyes

20 Apr 2026

An agent watching video should default to listening, and only open its eyes when audio admits it missed something.