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Some thoughts on agent runtime & agent identity

A few weeks of hands-on notes on agent runtime and agent identity - without a defined enforcement boundary, even a good agent identity design is just more metadata
LiteRT Dispatch API Analysis

Reading the Dispatch API gives you the list of things to ask a chip vendor before you commit, and explains why TOPS is the least useful number on the datasheet. Third in a series on LiteRT and on-device inference.
Graph Partitioning Explained

Where the cuts land decides whether acceleration is a win or a loss, and JIT carries a consequence the docs state plainly but that's easy to skim past. Second in a series on LiteRT and on-device inference.
LiteRT Exploration - Analyzing attention.tflite

Cracking open a real .tflite, and reading grouped-query attention straight off the tensor shapes. First in a series on LiteRT and on-device inference, starting with what a model file physically is.
Loop Engineering's Missing Building Block: Why Embedded Systems Are a Safer Playground for AI Agents

Addy Osmani's Loop Engineering describes five building blocks for autonomous AI loops, but misses a critical question: when AI says 'done,' how do you know it's actually done? In AOSP / embedded environments, the answer is deterministic verification, the system itself tells you.

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