CodeNSolder 
Ayan Pahwa
RSS FeedI'm a Developer Advocate who builds agentic AI systems in public and writes about the web-data layer they run on. Away from the keyboard I'm a coffee nerd, an everyday-carry obsessive, and a dad of two, running more parallel expensive hobbies than is probably sensible.
Last shipped: We built the world economy with no redundancy. 2026 is stress-testing it - Trade, Gold, AI and Transition (3 Nov)
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C.H.A.R.T.E.R. is a fail-closed standard for governing a fleet of AI agents: one small file per agent lists every model, tool, host, and limit it may use, and the loader that runs it is the only door.
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From scattered containers to a proper self-hosted setup: hardware choices, the double NAT problem, and VLAN network design — how to build a homelab that actually keeps running.
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Updated:Reverse engineering a Syska smart LED bulb by sniffing unencrypted BLE packets with Wireshark and Android HCI logs, then replicating the RGB control protocol using Linux Bluez tools (CVE-2017-18642).
Recent Posts
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We built the world economy with no redundancy. 2026 is stress-testing it - Trade, Gold, AI and Transition
The Stress Test · 1Thinking out loud as an engineer: what a car priced in gold says about Nixon's 1971 gamble, why war, tariffs and $40 trillion of debt are hitting a system with no slack, who holds power when you stop making things, and what I'm going to learn in 2027 to come out alive, if not winning.
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I put Claude, Grok, and GPT-5.6 in a live debate over how a person should design their life. One model asked another to name a single relationship it had kept for more than two years. It never answered. 85 turns, $0.90, one open question.
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The full picture of my agentic coding setup: how I structured a four-agent team, what habits hold it together, and the reasoning behind every decision that survived real use.
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The rules I actually follow when working with AI agents — where things stand today, and why some of this will change.
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