Engineering

A new paper from Intel researchers introduces BITCOS, a distribution-aware storage layout for ternary LLMs that exploits the real-world prevalence of zero weights to push effective bit-widths well below the conventional 1.585-bit floor - delivering up to 1.28× throughput gains in production serving.

How a forced-tool Claude vision pipeline extracts pilot licenses with 100% rating recall, how the flight logbook audits itself against physics, and the ops war stories that humanized the build.

Part 3 of rebuilding Cruiser Aviation on AWS: how a WhatsApp-native AI assistant handles billing and bookings without ever letting the model touch money, and how a deterministic scheduling loop replaced a human dispatcher.

A deep dive into the AWS-backed stack powering the rebuilt Cruiser Aviation platform: from Next.js 16 App Router conventions and Aurora Serverless v2 to a dual-country billing abstraction and a pure-functional FIFO hours ledger.

A flight school's production SaaS was rebuilt from scratch on AWS in 11 days after a year of compounding technical debt - this is the story of the autopsy, the decision to rewrite rather than refactor, and the planning, schema, ETL, auth migration, and cutover that made it work.

Instead of waiting for store owners to find the tool, this system pre-scans their store, then emails them a link to their own AI-written support teardown - a closed loop that sources, qualifies, analyzes, and converts, with every move logged to a team dashboard.

How an internal LinkedIn content-automation platform deleted its Railway worker, Redis, and BullMQ entirely - replacing them with Vercel Cron and a Postgres-as-queue pattern - shipping ~2,400 fewer lines, ~85% fewer scheduled invocations, and eliminating a whole class of silent distributed-systems bugs.

v1 turned any store's support pages into a shareable teardown. v2 turns that same engine into a targeted lead machine - finding the right stores, listening for buying intent across the web, and landing every result in one team dashboard.

A free tool reads a store's public support pages and mirrors back how an AI agent would handle their tickets - grounded, honest, and shareable. The build, the stack trade-offs, and the strategy that made distribution the product.

A production-grade system that turns uploaded photos into a curated, auto-scheduled, auto-published Instagram feed - three Claude agents for the judgment calls, deterministic code for everything that must be exact.

Four products - marketing site, AI sales concierge, CRM, and customer portal - for a Swiss aircraft dealership, shipped as one Next.js app on one Postgres. A study in breadth without sprawl.

A solo, end-to-end agentic system that runs an entire job-search funnel - discovering postings, scoring them, tailoring applications, submitting them, handling recruiter replies, and even placing the screening phone calls - with cost, safety, and human-in-the-loop built in from the start.