Doug Campos

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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Recent Posts

  • How Computers Find Words

    Every search engine you’ve ever used runs on an algorithm from 1994. Google, DuckDuckGo, the search bar in your email client - underneath all the machine learning, there’s a formula...

  • Four Tools and a Lobster

    You might have heard of OpenClaw — the open-source AI assistant running on everything from WhatsApp to a Raspberry Pi, mass adoption, mass controversy. What powers it is a tiny...

  • The Closing Gates of Open Source

    I tried to contribute a fix to beads_viewer recently. Found a real bug where a hardcoded path should have used a stored variable, wrote up a clean fix, and submitted...

  • 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...

  • 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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