Skip to content

Technical publication · by William Oliveira

Monday Brief

AI engineering in practice: reliable agents, local models, and efficient systems — from cloud to device.

Issues are planned for Mondays, as time, material and my depression allow.

Subscribe via RSS New issues in your feed reader.

Latest issue

Agent security lives beyond the tool schema

LiteLLM and MCP show where infrastructure and tool permissions escape their intended boundaries. This issue also covers language-sensitive guards, reproducible RAG, mobile inference, and four runtime updates.

  • Security and privacy
  • Reliability, evaluation, and observability
  • Mobile AI
  • Edge AI
  • Local AI
  • AI engineering and agent architecture
Read this issue

Previous issues

  1. Agent reliability beyond the average

    This week: agents that fail on repeat, Pydantic AI security fixes, and SGLang's new storage default. Plus runtime snapshots, reusable context, and audio models running on a phone's CPU.

    • Reliability, evaluation, and observability
    • Security and privacy
    • AI engineering and agent architecture
    • Local AI
    • Edge AI
    • Mobile AI
  2. Special launch issue: tools, evals, and local inference

    MCP security advisories, agent evaluation pitfalls, and runtime changes in vLLM, Ollama, and Apple's on-device stack. Plus a proposed MLX memory experiment.

    • Security and privacy
    • Reliability, evaluation, and observability
    • AI engineering and agent architecture
    • Local AI
    • Mobile AI