Philip Brembeck https://philipbrembeck.com Writings by Philip Brembeck en-us Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:07:00 GMT 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. Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/08/eighteen-days-and-europe-was-not-in-the-room 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. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/08/reads-tools-and-project-ideas-august-26 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 Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/07/only-as-much-intelligence-as-you-need 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. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/07/reads-tools-and-project-ideas-july-26 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. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/06/hermes-is-only-as-useful-as-you-engineer-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. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/06/writing-friction-is-the-real-architecture-problem 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. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/06/reads-tools-and-project-ideas-june-26 MCP should be dead https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/mcp-should-be-dead CLI + Skill beats MCP in almost every case. Almost. Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/mcp-should-be-dead 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? Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/what-about-the-juniors 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. Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/killing-token-costs 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. Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/a-personal-perspective-on-agentic-engineering 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. Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://philipbrembeck.com/writings/2026/05/reads-tools-and-project-ideas-may-26