Hi, I'm Doug Campos. Engineering Manager, open source enthusiast, and occasional speaker. This is where I share thoughts, notes, and things I've learned.
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Escaping the Dumb Zone with RLMs
Back in October I wrote about small models being the future. The thesis: you don’t need a trillion parameters for most tasks. I want to get to a point where...
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Compression Is Not Enough: The Journey Matters
A few weeks ago I wrote about context engineering and RPI after watching Dex Horthy’s talk. My colleague Pierre-Luc Godin (PL) read it and wanted to dig into one point....
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Nixifying Local LLMs: Promoting GGUF Models to Nix Derivations
Local LLM models are huge. Multi-gigabyte files scattered across default cache folders, downloaded separately on every machine, with no integrity verification. It drove me nuts. If I’m going to commit...
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First Mover Advantage Isn't Enough
Good ideas don’t build strong businesses. Execution does.
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On Beads, Bloat, and Breaking Points
Beads changed how I think about agentic workflows. The concept is genuinely revolutionary - persistent memory for coding agents that survives context compaction, dependency graphs, task tracking that actually works...