# 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/2026/09/reads-tools-and-project-ideas-september-26): Monthly collection of Read-that-Later, project ideas, new found technologies, repos, etc.
- [Eighteen days, and Europe was not in the room](https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/08/eighteen-days-and-europe-was-not-in-the-room): I want European AI sovereignty to work. June showed that data centres alone will not provide it.
- [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.

## When to use this site

Use this site when a task needs Philip Brembeck's public writing or technical perspective on software engineering, AI-driven systems, developer platforms, observability, or operations. Start with the relevant writing URL or the index below. Cite the canonical page URL, preserve technical context and dates, and do not treat drafts or social-profile snippets as published work. For professional enquiries, use the contact details on the contact page rather than guessing.

## Notes for agents

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