Latent Signal

“Agentic systems” can refer to very different kinds of systems. In our new series on building agentic systems, the first post maps the autonomy spectrum—from simple model calls to systems that plan, use tools, and act with limited supervision. 🧵 1/3

Each step brings more flexibility, but also more cost, complexity, and risk. The core idea: choose the simplest architecture that gives the system just enough autonomy to do the job well. 2/3

To test GLM 5.2, we utilized it in opencode.ai with the following task: Migrate the Umami project from Postgres to SQLite. This task is not particularly challenging because it has been attempted before, and Umami utilizes @prisma.io, which already supports SQLite. github.com/umami-softwa...

I didn’t want to sit on a Show HN page waiting for new comments, so I asked Gemini to write a small script that watches Firebase and sends Pushover notifications to my phone. I ran it once and left it alone. This morning I woke up to a stack of comment alerts.

I am sure this will be useful for others, so I turned it into a small GitHub project: github.com/latentsignal...

We’ve been following the trend of Agentic Search. So, we thought, wouldn’t it be fascinating to do agentic search on top of your emails? We could incorporate some LLM wiki concepts as well. We created Memento to illustrate this. This video provides a clear explanation. youtu.be/Ms1KeAYCN2A

Since email is private, we were struggling to show all the features of memento; so we imported the Enron email data set into Memento . You can view the hosted version here: memento-demo.latentsignal.org

Hello Bluesky 👋 We’re @annjose.com and @georgeck.me, two software engineers building, writing, and teaching at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and product development. We focus on moving past AI hype by building projects, and developing mental models for how software is changing.