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Evidence cards feed a small decision component that branches into retrieval, an answering model and human review.
Working with AI·7 October 2026

Jev, OpenAI, and the Shift Towards Decision AI

I started by asking what Jev actually built. A four-subagent RAG example brought the opportunity into focus: useful decisions need useful context and software that knows what to do next.

By Kingsley Ijomah

A fragile inflated sphere above a durable layered software foundation of data, retrieval, evaluation and connected tools
Working with AI·24 September 2026

When the AI Bubble Bursts, What Will Still Be Worth Learning?

The valuations attached to frontier-model companies will not rise forever. If they correct, the useful question for engineers is not whether AI disappears, but which parts of the stack remain worth understanding.

By Kingsley Ijomah

Editorial screenprint illustration of an engineer in an active sports wheelchair with Loopwheels assembling a minimal circular loop mechanism on a workbench in front of a sprawling scaffolding framework, featuring bold hand-drawn lettering reading 'BUILD THE LOOP' and subtle emerald accents.
Working with AI·17 September 2026

Build an AI Agent from First Principles Before You Choose a Framework

I kept rebuilding the same agent inside different products. Stripping it back to one definition, three skills, one MCP tool and a visible loop showed me what an agent framework actually does.

By Kingsley Ijomah

A software engineer examines a modular agent runtime passing through an API gateway into a managed sandbox.
Working with AI·17 September 2026

OpenAI’s Agents API: What It Is and What Changes for Developers

I first read ‘Agents API’ as another agent-building SDK. The important change is that OpenAI now operates the Codex harness itself, including durable sessions, context compaction, recovery, sandboxes and subagents. Here is what that means for developers.

By Kingsley Ijomah

Editorial screenprint illustration featuring the bold hand-lettered headline 'CONTROL POINTS' in   crisp off-white brush lettering. A Black male software engineer with glasses and tied-back dreadlocks,   seated in an active sports wheelchair with Loopwheels, inspects a modular four-tier agentic stack with   an emerald green tool while industrial clamps latch onto separate layers.
Working with AI·17 September 2026

Who Will Own the Agentic Stack? The Model Is Only One Control Point

I started by comparing model providers, clouds, data platforms and agent frameworks as if they were fighting for the same prize. They are not. The more useful question is which control point each vendor wants to make hardest to replace.

By Kingsley Ijomah

Modern tech editorial screenprint illustration with prominent bold hand-lettered headline   "RAG BEYOND THE DEMO". The author, a Black male software engineer with glasses and tied-   back dreadlocks in an active sports wheelchair with Loopwheels, uses precision calipers to   forensically inspect a text chunk from the opened internal machinery and index drawers   beneath a sleek software demo console.
Working with AI·12 September 2026

RAG Beyond the Demo: What Retrieval Is Really Doing

When I first looked beneath a working RAG demo, I learned that retrieval quality depended on much more than a vector database. I built this local, inspectable project so you can follow the same path through chunks, embeddings, conflicts, deletion and evaluation.

By Kingsley Ijomah

Modern tech editorial screenprint illustration featuring the bold hand-lettered headline 'BUILDING   WITH AI'. In an engineering systems workshop with architectural pipeline schematics and flowcharts on   the wall, a Black male software engineer with short locs tied back, rounded glasses, and a goatee   sits in a sleek active sports wheelchair with Loopwheels, using a precision tool to mount and   calibrate a glowing emerald green modular AI core component into a robust system chassis equipped   with an evaluation meter and safe-boundary conduits. Deep dark zinc background with Ben-Day halftone   shading, vivid emerald accents, an inner keyline frame, and a discreet 'CODEHANCE.COM' stamp in the   lower right.
Working with AI·6 September 2026

What Building with AI Actually Means for Software Engineers

I understood building with AI more clearly when a trend-detection project stopped being an LLM problem and became a system-design problem involving embeddings, time, evaluation, incomplete data and human judgement.

By Kingsley Ijomah

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