Navigating the Tides of Technology, Culture, and Change.https://jadmadi.net/https://jadmadi.net/posts/my-mcp-stack/https://jadmadi.net/posts/my-mcp-stack/A peek into my daily local-first agent workflow across Thermal, Skill Cabinet Go, and curated agent skills. How tracking token burn and organizing skill drawers grew into Mahak and Sila.Technology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/the-skill-bloat-dilemma/https://jadmadi.net/posts/the-skill-bloat-dilemma/As our agent skill libraries grew to hundreds of bundles, we hit a quiet cliff: silent alphabetical truncation, 50,000-token prompt bloat, and a 66% task failure rate. The architecture behind hybrid skill governance.The ExplainerThe Core DumpJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/why-your-coding-agents-burn-tokens-in-the-dark/https://jadmadi.net/posts/why-your-coding-agents-burn-tokens-in-the-dark/We handed our terminals over to autonomous agents, only to discover our token bills were compounding in silence. The architecture behind Thermal, a local-first FinOps dashboard built in Go.Project PilotThe Core DumpJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/demystifying-agent-skills/https://jadmadi.net/posts/demystifying-agent-skills/Skills help agents by stabilizing action, not by injecting facts. But the same abstraction that makes them useful also creates a new failure surface. A deep dive into the Princeton study that breaks down 8,135 trials into 12 failure modes.The ExplainerJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/the-irony-loop-and-the-myth-of-open-ai-embrace-extend-and-extinguish-v2-welcome-to-the-new-era/https://jadmadi.net/posts/the-irony-loop-and-the-myth-of-open-ai-embrace-extend-and-extinguish-v2-welcome-to-the-new-era/A historical look at Microsoft's transition from 'Linux is a cancer' to championing 'open weights' AI, and why EEE V2 threatens independent developer sovereignty.Technology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/sirens-sounds-back-then/https://jadmadi.net/posts/sirens-sounds-back-then/A memory of the 1991 Gulf War in a quiet Jabal Amman stair-alleyway, and how screens have atomized our collective response to regional crisis into solitary background noise.Middle East MusingsPersonalJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/latency-is-political-when-you-live-far-from-the-center/https://jadmadi.net/posts/latency-is-political-when-you-live-far-from-the-center/A personal essay on infrastructure distance, cloud dependence, and why technical latency feels different when you are building from the edge of the network rather than the middle of it.Middle East MusingsTechnology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/open-source-ai-rebellion/https://jadmadi.net/posts/open-source-ai-rebellion/An essay from Amman on why the open-weight AI movement feels like the Linux years all over again, especially from a region that understands the value of digital sovereignty.Middle East MusingsTechnology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/power-of-jules/https://jadmadi.net/posts/power-of-jules/A personal reflection on using an AI coding agent in real work, and what that experience reveals about the changing shape of software engineering.Technology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/ai-proxies-llms-arabic-language-performance-and-obsbot-tiny2-for-podcasting/https://jadmadi.net/posts/ai-proxies-llms-arabic-language-performance-and-obsbot-tiny2-for-podcasting/A personal field report from my recent AI rabbit holes: building a private LLM proxy, stress-testing Arabic prompts, and experimenting with AI-assisted podcasting.Technology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/understanding-arabic-sentiment-analysis/https://jadmadi.net/posts/understanding-arabic-sentiment-analysis/A practical look at why Arabic sentiment analysis remains difficult, from morphology and dialects to scarce resources and uneven tooling.Middle East MusingsTechnology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/the-eliza-effect-and-the-future-of-human-ai-interaction/https://jadmadi.net/posts/the-eliza-effect-and-the-future-of-human-ai-interaction/From Weizenbaum's simple therapist bot to modern assistants, the ELIZA effect explains why we keep mistaking fluent machine output for understanding.Technology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/decoding-the-ai-black-box-my-enlightening-dialogue-with-claude-3-5-sonnet/https://jadmadi.net/posts/decoding-the-ai-black-box-my-enlightening-dialogue-with-claude-3-5-sonnet/A reflective essay on what a long conversation with Claude 3.5 revealed about AI opacity, variability, and the discipline required to use it responsibly.Technology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/from-code-to-canvas-an-ai-fueled-artistic-awakening/https://jadmadi.net/posts/from-code-to-canvas-an-ai-fueled-artistic-awakening/A personal essay about how AI image tools reopened a creative door I had long assumed was closed to me.Technology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/synthid-the-ai-watermark-that-could-save-the-internet/https://jadmadi.net/posts/synthid-the-ai-watermark-that-could-save-the-internet/A reflective look at Google's SynthID and the harder problem beneath it: how we preserve trust, attribution, and ambiguity in an internet saturated with AI output.Technology BitesJadhttps://jadmadi.net/posts/rekindling-the-flame-my-journey-back-to-blogging-after-two-decades/https://jadmadi.net/posts/rekindling-the-flame-my-journey-back-to-blogging-after-two-decades/A personal return to blogging after two decades away, and a reflection on the older web, Middle Eastern voice, and the value of publishing in your own corner again.PersonalJad