Field Notes

A writeup every two weeks some reasonable amount of time.

  1. Minions · Part 1/2 EN coming soon

    Minions, Part 1: an affordable multi-agent SDLC that actually ships

    How a tiny team ran an autonomous agent pipeline — ticket to merged PR — without the bill spiralling. The roster, the cost discipline, and what it took to make it real.

    Jun 30, 2026 · 9 min #ai-agents#sdlc#pluma#engineering
  2. Tábuas · Part 1/3 EN coming soon

    Tábuas, Part 1: a 1 TB Oracle base and a pipeline that wouldn't finish

    The setting for a database-optimization series — biometric life tables, a billion-record Oracle base, and a pipeline whose naïve version simply didn't return in time.

    Jun 14, 2026 · 8 min #databases#oracle#optimization#labma