# Philip Brembeck

> Personal website and writings by Philip Brembeck, a software engineer in Munich focused on software engineering, AI-driven systems, and operations.

## Site

- [Home](https://philipbrembeck.com/): Personal introduction, work focus, projects, and contact links.
- [Writings](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings): Published essays and articles.
- [RSS](https://philipbrembeck.com/rss.xml): RSS feed for published writings.

## Writings

- [Reads, Tools and Project Ideas](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/08/reads-tools-and-project-ideas-august-26): Monthly collection of Read-that-Later, project ideas, new found technologies, repos, etc.
- [Only as much intelligence as you need](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/07/only-as-much-intelligence-as-you-need): The advisor flow, and why routing tasks to the right model size is where agentic engineering is headed
- [Reads, Tools and Project Ideas](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/07/reads-tools-and-project-ideas-july-26): Monthly collection of Read-that-Later, project ideas, new found technologies, repos, etc.
- [Hermes is only as useful as you engineer it](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/06/hermes-is-only-as-useful-as-you-engineer-it): Installing a personal agent is easy. Making it useful means engineering the harness around it.
- [Writing friction is the real architecture problem](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/06/writing-friction-is-the-real-architecture-problem): How I built this pretty opinionated blog system to minimize writing friction and keep the focus on content.
- [Reads, Tools and Project Ideas](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/06/reads-tools-and-project-ideas-june-26): Monthly collection of Read-that-Later, project ideas, new found technologies, repos, etc.
- [MCP should be dead](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/mcp-should-be-dead): CLI + Skill beats MCP in almost every case. Almost.
- [What about the Juniors?](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/what-about-the-juniors): Entry-level job market is hell. What happens to the people who never get to be junior developers at all?
- [Cut AI tokens for local agents by ~80%](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/killing-token-costs): Caveman seemed valuable, but RTK is better, more efficient, and attacks your token consumption at a completely different level.
- [A personal perspective on agentic engineering](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/a-personal-perspective-on-agentic-engineering): Three years of trying tools, breaking codebases, and figuring out what agentic engineering actually is.
- [Reads, Tools and Project Ideas](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/reads-tools-and-project-ideas-may-26): Monthly collection of Read-that-Later, project ideas, new found technologies, repos, etc.

## Notes for agents

- Prefer the prerendered HTML at each writing URL when reading articles.
- Draft posts are intentionally omitted from this file.
- OpenGraph images are available at https://philipbrembeck.com/og/writings/<slug>.svg for published posts.