SpeakingVideo
From VMware to Agentic AI: Building, Breaking, and Learning
25 years in infrastructure, an AI lab at home, and a new world where agents are becoming part of the technology stack.
AgentsVideo
From Architecture to Demo: Jev, Skills, and Agentic Incident Enrichment
The result brings together several concepts I've covered in previous posts, but this time in a working demo.
AgentsVideo
Agentic Incident Enrichment, the Lowest Hanging Fruit of Agentic IT Use Cases
Finding practical enterprise use cases for agents, without handing them the keys to the data center.
Agents
What I learned about structuring an MCP server
This post is about my learnings of how to build, use and govern MCP servers right.
Agents
I Started Using Paperclip. Now I Burn Millions of Tokens
My local LLM used to spend most of its time doing absolutely nothing. Now it burns through millions of tokens doing work for my agents. Paperclip gave…
AgentsVideo
My first vlog entry
presenting my first vlog on the youtube channel! It is the demo behind last week's post. An agent on Tanzu, bound to an MCP server, and a grant on Age…
Agents
Tanzu, AgentMinder, and the Difference Between a Bind and a Grant
AgentMinder + Tanzu on VCF. What changed when I stopped building my own agent infrastructure by hand and started running it on a real platform.
Agents
Why I moved my AI-ITOps and coding work from Claude to Cursor
More models to choose from, an auto mode that took me from a $120 subscription to a $20 one, and a tidier way to run agents.
Agents
The reason to build an MCP server is not the reason you think
An MCP server across 7,698 VCF operations bought me four things. Three are nice. The fourth is the only one that matters for agents on real infrastruc…
Agents
I've turned Claude into my first officer on the Starship Enterprise
Talking to an agent in human language is wasteful, and until that changes I decided to at least enjoy it. What happened when I told Claude it works fo…
Agents
I told the agent not to do the one thing that would have fixed my problem
Where agents belong and where they don't, why hallucinations aren't the real failure mode, and an ESXi 9 certificate mismatch that cost five bring-ups…
Agents
I Let Claude Code Deploy My VCF 9.1 Home Lab, and This Is What Happened
Zero to nested VCF on a bare HP ML350, with an agent doing the work and me playing Xbox. It worked. The interesting part is what you have to put in pl…
Agents
Agents are like genies in a bottle, be careful what you wish for
why you can't glue deterministic systems on non deterministic agents
Agents
Shared Memory Across Agents Is an Identity Problem: The Story of the Badge and the Filing Room
What a journey to shared memory taught me about agent identity.
Lab Build
I Put Claude Code in Charge of Hermes, and Then I Couldn't Leave the Room
I made Claude Code be orchestrator above Hermes and it was exhausting.
Lab Build
Nemo vs. Hermes: The Track to Get My Agent to Stop Lying to Me
Moving from NemoClaw to Hermes, the fabrication problem that came with it, and the track to get grounding right, from SOUL.md to the harness itself.