An agent is a loop, a message history and a handful of tools. Here is what that looks like in Swift 6, with actors and strict concurrency. Background Thorsten Ball’s “How to Build an Agent” makes a point that is… Continue Reading
Word2Vec is fundamentally a prediction engine over context. “Given this token, what else is likely nearby?” And that predictive framing generalizes to anything sequential: next word, next product, next event, next note in a melody. The “chances are high I’ll see similar words”… Continue Reading
Word2Vec has no notion of “meaning” — it only ever predicts which words sit near which, yet semantic structure falls out of that single objective. Here’s exactly why. Background Before dense embeddings, the default word representation was one-hot encoding: a… Continue Reading
An OpenAI-compatible endpoint on localhost:8080 is all it takes to turn an agentic coding tool into a fully offline one — here is what the stack actually does, and where it leaks. Background Agentic coding assistants are, architecturally, thin clients.… Continue Reading
Von der Spec zum Client — auf allen Plattformen Wer heute eine mobile App baut, baut meistens zwei: eine für Android, eine für iOS. Und irgendwo dazwischen schreibt man denselben HTTP-Code zweimal. Kotlin Multiplatform verspricht, dieses Problem zu lösen, aber… Continue Reading
Dynamic programming is usually taught with mutable arrays and index arithmetic — Kotlin’s generateSequence and sequence { } let you express the same recurrences as infinite, lazily-evaluated streams. Background Classic dynamic programming (DP) involves filling a table bottom-up: allocate… Continue Reading
Kotlin has always marketed itself as functional-friendly, but until the K2 compiler era, inline lambdas had a subtle second-class limitation that forced awkward workarounds in functional-style code. Background Functional programming in Kotlin relies heavily on higher-order functions and lambdas —… Continue Reading
JetBrains Koog: A Kotlin-Native Agent Framework That Skips the Python Tax If your backend is Kotlin or Java and you want to add AI agents, you’ve been forced to either wrap a Python service or accept a framework that treats… Continue Reading
Writing shared business logic once and shipping it to both Android and iOS turns out to be far less painful than I expected. Background The premise of Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) has always sounded attractive: define your data models, network layer,… Continue Reading
Swift 6.3’s @c Attribute: Replacing @_cdecl and Making C Interop a First-Class Citizen For a decade, exposing Swift code to C required an underscore-prefixed, unsupported hack — Swift 6.3 finally makes it official. Background Swift has always been able to… Continue Reading