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2026 Week 21 - AI agent flows

- 2 min read - 300 words
Brett Dargan
Brett Dargan
Tech Co-Founder | Architect | Strategist

2026W21

TLDR;

  1. Compare and contrast Matt Pocock AI workflow, particularly around the use of skills /grill-with-docs different types of job types of Human In Loop vs. Away From Keyboard with Allium language and approach.

  2. Try Matt Pocock skills, compare the improve codebase architecture skill with modularity tools from - GitHub - vladikk/modularity: Claude Code plugin for designing modular systems from functional requirements and reviewing existing codebases for modularity problems with actionable improvement recommendations. Based on the Balanced Coupling model. · GitHub and GitHub - JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman · GitHub.

  3. Compare results with a varion Kit approach. Been a slow month on prof. dev but I’ve come back to catch up on AI agent flows and particularly about a good approach and scaffolding to achieve good outcomes for AI adoption. While tooling is necessary, I want practical heuristics that can be applied generally.

Matt Pocock has done a decent job explaining his flows and how he focuses on skills to define the job to be done / prd and then how to get the issues/stories into vertical slices/tracer bullet (for pragprog) to guide towards modules with deep interfaces (Jonh Ouster)

I’ve got a growing list of skills to go back to.

2026 Week 16

- 1 min read - 200 words
Brett Dargan
Brett Dargan
Tech Co-Founder | Architect | Strategist

2026W16

I’m on holidays this week but hope to try gemma4 locally with - Running OpenCode with Gemma 4 26B on macOS via llama.cpp - fixing tool calling · GitHub Vladd, author of Balanced Coupling in Software Design has released skills I’m keen to try - See GitHub - vladikk/modularity: Claude Code plugin for designing modular systems from functional requirements and reviewing existing codebases for modularity problems with actionable improvement recommendations. Based on the Balanced Coupling model. · GitHub.

Keep a lid on your token spend with Caveman - GitHub - JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman · GitHub

Maybe I’ll get time to try this also - GitHub - ultraworkers/claw-code: The repo is finally unlocked. enjoy the party! The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Join Discord: https://discord.gg/5TUQKqFWd Built in Rust using oh-my-codex. · GitHub

Try Spec Kit, need to try again.

- 1 min read - 100 words
Brett Dargan
Brett Dargan
Tech Co-Founder | Architect | Strategist

2026W14-5

Bit under-whelming, vs. general vibe results. I probably need to give it a generally well known problem to remix and regurgitate.

2026 Week 13 - Agent comparisons - AgentOS, BMAD, SpecKit

- 1 min read - 100 words
Brett Dargan
Brett Dargan
Tech Co-Founder | Architect | Strategist

2026W13

tbh, the bottom up and faster tools of Spec Kit and Open Spec I’ll probably lean towards.

But I’ll still need to try out BMAD and AgentOS for 1st hand experience.

2026 Week 06 - Search and mixture of models

- 1 min read - 200 words
Brett Dargan
Brett Dargan
Tech Co-Founder | Architect | Strategist

2026W06

Trying out Opencode with direct xAI provider.

Interesting paper on search / retrieval

Superlink bm25 and mixture of models.

GitHub - parthsarthi03/raptor: The official implementation of RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval Airbnb Search Benchmarking - Comparison of retrieval techniques | VectorHub by Superlinked

Way back we used Elasticsearch for hotel search at Wotif.com, interesting this approach with mixing of models.

On Local-First

Watched an intewview with jamsocket creator in my local-first readings, plane is super interesting.

RAG from scratch

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