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Insights, updates and articles on AI agent orchestration — from practical guides to deep dives on building with HelixML.
Giving Every Agent Its Own Desktop
Jun 3, 2026I recorded my talk at Tessl AI DevCon on my laptop. Here's what I said about why agents need their own computers, why Claude Code made me stupider, and why multi-agent org charts devolve into corporate politics.
Read more →Modelling the AI-Augmented Organisation
May 26, 2026Swarms of agents is the wrong mental model. Reuse the org-chart and model AI as colleagues with roles, responsibilities, and a human accountable at the top.
Read more →Four Lessons from Building an Agentic Workforce
May 15, 2026Notes from wiring up agents with personalities to streams of information: cascading self-activations, models that won't shut up, emergent enterprise politics, and agents that forget they aren't human.
Read more →Working with the Garage Door Up, Without a Door
May 7, 2026Why every design doc we write goes straight to a public Git branch, and what we've learned by leaving the door off.
Read more →Chunking Beats Slicing: What SWE-Bench Taught Me About Code Intelligence
Mar 17, 2026I benchmarked two approaches to code indexing. The smarter one lost.
Read more →76ms writes on an NVMe: how ZFS dedup ate my agent infrastructure alive
Mar 16, 2026ZFS dedup was causing 4-6x write amplification and 76ms latency spikes on our agent infrastructure. The fix was a ZFS feature from 2005.
Read more →Adding support for Gemini thought signatures
Mar 7, 2026Gemini 3 and 2.5 models require thought signatures for multi-turn tool calling. Here's what they are, why they break OpenAI-compatible proxies, and how we fixed it in Helix with a global signature cache.
Read more →The $175K Server That Replaces Your Cloud AI Bill
Mar 5, 2026We're shipping a 4U rack server with 8× RTX 6000 Pro GPUs, 768 GB VRAM, and Helix preloaded. The maths works — and sovereignty matters more than cost.
Read more →Trump Can Read Your Email — and Your AI Agent Logs: The Case for Digital Sovereignty
Mar 5, 2026I was on a video call with Dubai while missiles were being intercepted overhead. The next day I watched Trump threaten the UK prime minister on live television. It connected some dots about AI infrastructure.
Read more →Introducing the Helix Blog
Feb 25, 2026Welcome to the Helix blog — your source for insights, tutorials, and updates on AI agent orchestration with HelixML.
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