Systems Builder
Personal blog and project space for AI agents, LLMOps/MLOps infrastructure, and practical engineering lessons from building production systems and workshops.
Writing
Architecture notes, production lessons, and workshop-ready breakdowns from building AI and infrastructure systems.
Mar 15, 2026
13 min read
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Forking OpenAI's Symphony to create a Plan → Implement → Review pipeline that turns Linear tickets into collaboration board for faster merged code — with RepoPrompt for focused context, cmux for agent visibility, and a human in the loop
Feb 26, 2026
6 min read
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A full guide to repurposing an old laptop as a hardened Linux server with Tailscale VPN, Cloudflare DDNS, Cockpit dashboard, Claude Code, and OpenClaw — accessible from anywhere in the world.
Feb 22, 2026
5 min read
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OpenClaw stores everything in Markdown. Obsidian reads Markdown. So I made them the same folder — here's the architecture, the scripts, and what I learned.
Monthly picks
A monthly curation of blogs, threads, articles, and projects. It adds a living layer to the site and helps readers follow what is shaping my current thinking.
February 2026
View all months| Type | Resource | Short description | Date added |
|---|---|---|---|
| tweet | Obsidian CLI is finally here. | ||
| project | Agent harness focused on systematically improving code quality through prioritized findings, scoring, and iterative fix workflows. | ||
| project | Directory of open-source AI repositories with category and contributor views, useful for quickly scouting projects to study. | ||
| tool | A live, user-behavior-driven leaderboard that ranks AI image models by head-to-head design preference matchups. | ||
| article | Anthropic’s practical guide to designing reliable long-running agent harnesses, with patterns for checkpoints, supervision, and recovery. |
Workshops / Operator Notes
I write and teach from implementation details: orchestration failures, observability gaps, evaluation loops, and deployment tradeoffs. The goal is repeatable systems, not demos that only work in ideal conditions.
For workshops, collaborations, or technical discussions, reach out at elkhabich@safoine.com.