Hi, I'm Calvin.

I'm a UI/UX developer at heart with a passion for fast, elegant and usable products. Today, I'm an AI-Native Builder & Problem Solver. In my free time I'm out in nature, figuring out life in a bit of solitude — up a mountain, out in the surf, or deep in a trail.

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Reasoning Bench: Testing GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on Short Reasoning Prompts

I ran frontier models through 94 short reasoning prompts to see where they still trip up. The scores mostly tied, but the misses, cost, and speed told the useful story.

Jun 3, 2026 · 10 min read

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Building an AI Agent Memory Stack, Part 2: From Recall to Knowledge

Retrieval alone is not memory. After fixing pull-based recall for my AI agent, I added the layers that let knowledge stick.

Apr 30, 2026 · 8 min read

Tech

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Building Persistent AI Agent Memory: What I Replaced and Why It's Better

I tried building a structured knowledge base for my AI agent. It went stale, became a maintenance burden, and made things worse. Here's what I replaced it with — and why pull-based memory is so much better.

Mar 25, 2026 · 9 min read

Tech

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What Building an AI Agent Team Actually Looks Like

A first-person look at what it's really like to build and operate a team of AI agents day-to-day — what works, what's still broken, and what surprised me.

Mar 13, 2026 · 13 min read

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