Björn's cogitations

Welcome to my personal blog where I share thoughts on philosophy, technology, and life (in no particular order).

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• Cloud LLMs in prod...

  29 Jan, 2026

  Modern infra teams are quietly feeding their most sensitive data—logs, configs, schemas—into cloud LLMs just to get unstuck. It feels like harmless troubleshooting, but in reality it extends your trust boundary into a black box you don’t control or fully understand.

• A couple of notes on some software development topics.

  25 Jan, 2026

  Thoughts on some software development topics with regards to modern agentic tooling

• Using casq in CI

  24 Jan, 2026

  Content addressable storage for improved CI

• Introducing casq (a simple content-addressable file storage CLI and library)

  22 Jan, 2026

  casq is a small, no-frills content-addressed file store and Rust library that gives you git-style hashing and deduplication locally, without trying to be a full backup system or version control tool, and is available under the permissive Apache-2.0 license.

• Notes on agentic applications in business processes

  21 Jan, 2026

  This post explores how to pair agentic workflows with durable workflow engines, add structure using finite state machines and simple Markov policies, plug in MCP servers for tools, and grow from a small pilot into stable, production-ready workflows.

• Terminal multiplexers

  21 Jan, 2026

  Notes on terminal multiplexers.

• Locking down agents

  20 Jan, 2026

  Discussions about how one can limit the blast radius of agents.

• Making use of the Caps Lock key

  20 Jan, 2026

  Remap Caps Lock to Left Control.

• Building Smarter AI Agents With Ideas From Philosophy

  19 Jan, 2026

  Philosophically informed agent design means explicitly modeling what an AI believes, how it knows things, and which moral and epistemic norms guide its decisions, so that its behavior becomes more reliable, inspectable, and aligned with human expectations.