https://nyk.dev/blog Field notes on AI agents, context engineering, Solana infrastructure, and shipping production systems. en https://nyk.dev/blog/single-agent-skills-beat-multi-agent-teams https://nyk.dev/blog/single-agent-skills-beat-multi-agent-teams Most people add more agents when work gets hard. Compile roles into a skill library, keep one owner of the merge, and only go multi-agent for parallel research. guides Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/install-agent-skills-without-getting-owned https://nyk.dev/blog/install-agent-skills-without-getting-owned Skills are runbooks with teeth. Pre-install and pre-publish checklists so you do not treat stars as security reviews. guides Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/memory-skills-rules-compression-spectrum https://nyk.dev/blog/memory-skills-rules-compression-spectrum Stop pasting chat dumps into every session. Promote experience into journals, skills, and hard rules with a weekly prune. guides Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/first-hour-after-you-post-on-x https://nyk.dev/blog/first-hour-after-you-post-on-x Publish is half the job. A first-hour staff card for replies, link hygiene, and conversation quality - without inventing algorithm weights. guides Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/solana-agent-ops-devnet-checklist https://nyk.dev/blog/solana-agent-ops-devnet-checklist Simulate-first, least privilege, human gates on sends. A skill-shaped ops card for agents that touch Solana without demo-day regret. guides Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/solana-streaming-paths-decision-matrix https://nyk.dev/blog/solana-streaming-paths-decision-matrix Most teams overbuy streams or underbuy completeness. A six-row ladder and decision matrix for app, indexer, and trading workloads. guides Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/your-context-did-not-your-agent https://nyk.dev/blog/your-context-did-not-your-agent You know the feeling. The agent that nailed everything this morning is now making mistakes a beginner would not make. It just got noticeably worse over the sess… agents Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/hermes-plugins-app-store-moment https://nyk.dev/blog/hermes-plugins-app-store-moment Most people still judge agents by model quality. Packaging workflows as Hermes plugins is the hard part: contracts, distribution, and operator loops. agents Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/fable-masterclass-mythos-spend https://nyk.dev/blog/fable-masterclass-mythos-spend They will route every task to the most expensive brain in the room. agents Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-obsidian-memory-stack-90d https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-obsidian-memory-stack-90d Most people treat Claude memory like a bigger notebook. agents Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/4-layers-of-ai-work https://nyk.dev/blog/4-layers-of-ai-work The argument over prompt engineering versus context engineering is already stale. agents Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/how-to-become-ai-native-developer https://nyk.dev/blog/how-to-become-ai-native-developer AI-native is not ChatGPT tabs. It is specs, tools, verification, and memory - a one-week starter OS for developers. guides Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-code-skills-beginner-guide https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-code-skills-beginner-guide Skills are not longer prompts. A beginner template, auto-invoke mental model, and monthly prune so your skill library stays green. guides Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/agent-os-for-solo-developers https://nyk.dev/blog/agent-os-for-solo-developers You do not need a platform team. A weekend architecture for solo builders who want agents that compound without chaos. guides Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/solana-ai-agents-beginner-stack https://nyk.dev/blog/solana-ai-agents-beginner-stack Harness discipline meets chain hygiene: simulate-first tools, gated writes, context packs, and a two-week learning path. guides Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/vibe-coding-stack-mid-2026 https://nyk.dev/blog/vibe-coding-stack-mid-2026 As-of July 2026 field map: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI - what each is for, what rot looks like, and a default stack that survives real repos. guides Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/vibe-coding-verification-loop https://nyk.dev/blog/vibe-coding-verification-loop Output is free now. Proof is not. A session checklist that turns agent speed into diffs you can merge. guides Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/vibe-coding-multi-model-routing https://nyk.dev/blog/vibe-coding-multi-model-routing Stop sending every prompt to the frontier. Route plan / implement / review / audit by cost and failure mode. guides Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/mission-control-v2-1-0-is-out-self-hosted-mission- https://nyk.dev/blog/mission-control-v2-1-0-is-out-self-hosted-mission- Self-hosted mission control for AI agent fleets: what v2.1.0 is for, how to install the mental model, and the operator checklist after clone. agents Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/4-layers-every-production-ai-agent-needs-text-only https://nyk.dev/blog/4-layers-every-production-ai-agent-needs-text-only Model, tools, context, harness - the compact production checklist before you trust an agent with real work. agents Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/context-limits-are-the-silent-killer-of-ai-agents https://nyk.dev/blog/context-limits-are-the-silent-killer-of-ai-agents Why agents go sloppy mid-session without a clean error - and the four practices that stop silent context death. agents Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-agents-1m-context-without-drift https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-agents-1m-context-without-drift The problem was never the window size. It was context rot - performance degrades as conversations fill, not because the model forgets, but because signal drowns in noise. engineering Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/vibe-code-defi-quant-bot https://nyk.dev/blog/vibe-code-defi-quant-bot Most people think the hard part is writing the bot. It isn't. The hard part is building risk rules that the bot cannot negotiate with. guides Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/multiple-interests-stop-picking-one https://nyk.dev/blog/multiple-interests-stop-picking-one Pick one identity and repeat it for 40 years - that model breaks when the world rewrites itself every quarter. Your curiosity is raw material, not a weakness. strategy Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/ultimate-vibe-coding-beginners-guide https://nyk.dev/blog/ultimate-vibe-coding-beginners-guide AI tools increased output 10% while collapsing code quality by 60%. The exact failure pattern, why it happens, and the checklist to survive the transition. guides Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/context-engineering-only-engineering https://nyk.dev/blog/context-engineering-only-engineering An arXiv paper documented a Claude Code project with 26,000 lines of context architecture - more instructions than actual code. Their agents stopped hallucinating. engineering Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/the-harness-is-the-product https://nyk.dev/blog/the-harness-is-the-product LangChain jumped from Top 30 to Top 5 by changing zero model parameters. The teams shipping production agents have the best harness, not the best model access. agents Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-obsidian-memory-stack https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-obsidian-memory-stack Teams burn 30-40 minutes per Claude session re-explaining what they already knew. A three-tier memory system that makes output compound instead of plateau. engineering Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/next-buyer-mcp-endpoint https://nyk.dev/blog/next-buyer-mcp-endpoint Visa reported a 4,700% jump in AI-driven retail traffic. Within 12 months, MCP buying shifts revenue upstream. Most GTM teams still optimize for humans. agents Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/why-ai-needs-crypto https://nyk.dev/blog/why-ai-needs-crypto Most people frame AI vs crypto as a rivalry. Wrong framing. If AI is the intelligence layer, crypto is becoming the transaction layer for autonomous software. strategy Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-codex-local-stack-playbook https://nyk.dev/blog/claude-codex-local-stack-playbook Everyone says 'fix prompts' - in practice, the bottleneck is shell init, hook chains, and context drift. A measured pass cut zsh startup from 1.794s to 0.386s. engineering Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT