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Where I Am on the Agentic Engineering Ladder
Bassim Eledath wrote a framework for levels of agentic engineering. I mapped my own work against it.
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Second Brain, Third Try
Qumio's memory layer went through three architectures in two days. The final version is just the agent talking to Obsidian directly.
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Local Redaction
Qumio strips PII from email data using a local model before formatting it. One agent handles fetch, redaction, and categorization on-device.
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Put the Side Effect First
Small language models stop after producing output that looks complete. If you need a file write, do it before the final response.
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The Agent Said Go to Sleep
At 3 AM during the Qumio build, Claude told me to stop for the night. I didn't expect project management from an AI.
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Skill Calls Skill
I typed 'lets add more blogs' into a command router and watched four layers of AI tooling figure out what I meant.
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A Skill That Writes Blog Posts
The generate-blog-post skill is a markdown file that tells Claude where to find stories, how to avoid sounding like AI, and what to do when a draft gets rejected.
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Shipped in a Day
Qumio v1.0 went from empty repo to seven working skills in 98 commits over 15 hours. Here's what that actually looked like.
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Prompts as Software
Qumio's entire capability system is text files. No code, no deploys, no builds. Just prompts that hot-reload in under a second.
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The Agent Will Bypass You
If the main agent can do something itself, it will skip the delegation step. Every time.
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AI Slop Is a Real Problem
Every first draft from the AI had em dashes, 'key insights', and rule-of-three lists. I had to build rules to stop it.
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You Decide
I gave Claude discretion on five design decisions at once. Here's how that went.
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Building Qumio
How a morning routine problem led to a Telegram AI assistant running in Docker.
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