What happens when LLMs hit production?

I write about memory systems, context management, agents, evals, and the parts of AI infrastructure that break when real users show up.

I'm Seb. I've spent years around trust & safety, platform work, and AI tooling; fastpaca is where I write down what keeps being useful.

We are the Last Bottleneck

What AI can do is expanding faster than we can absorb it, changing how we solve problems, relate to technology, and involve other people.

What I Learned Rolling Out AI to 900+ Engineers

Lessons from leading AI adoption across 900+ engineers inside a $2bn+ company.

The Hamster Wheel That Drains You

Validation can quietly replace motivation, until you mistake the version of yourself people expect for the version you want to be.

Building on a Moving Train

AI infrastructure feels brittle because every primitive beneath it moves. Here's what I learned building and killing infrastructure in a field that reinvents itself every quarter.

Things I Built

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