What happens when LLMs hit production?

I write about memory systems, context management, agents, evals, and the parts of AI infrastructure that break when real users show up.

I'm Seb. I've spent years around trust & safety, platform work, and AI tooling; fastpaca is where I write down what keeps being useful.

What I Learned Rolling Out AI to 900+ Engineers

Lessons from leading AI adoption across 900+ engineers inside a $2bn+ company.

The Hamster Wheel That Drains You

Validation can quietly replace motivation, until you mistake the version of yourself people expect for the version you want to be.

Building on a Moving Train

AI infrastructure feels brittle because every primitive beneath it moves. Here's what I learned building and killing infrastructure in a field that reinvents itself every quarter.

Let's Build an AI Assistant That Remembers

A practical walkthrough of building an assistant with persistent memory using Cria.

Things I Built

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