István Antal
I write about software architecture, agentic coding, and the craft of building things that last — notes from the work, not the hype.
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8 postsAI model benchmarks are a suggestion
ThoughtsModel benchmark tables and one-shot demos are vendor-run, Goodharted, and blind to the harness you actually ship through. The only benchmark with predictive power for your work is your work.
Jun 13, 2026→PDF to Markdown on a Mac
GuideConvert PDFs to clean Markdown locally on Apple Silicon with marker, so LLMs can ingest documents efficiently without rasterising every page.
May 11, 2026→Video transcripts on a Mac
GuideTranscribe video locally on Apple Silicon with whisper.cpp at 5–8x realtime — no API key, no per-minute charges, no audio leaving the laptop.
May 11, 2026→The agent loop that ships while you are away
GuideAn opinionated set of agent skills (and the Artifex CLI they lean on) that ships work from a Jira ticket to a deployed fix without you at the keyboard.
Apr 26, 2026→Spec Driven Development
GuideA practical guide to turning plans into durable specs that humans and agents can review, approve, and implement.
Mar 7, 2026→Agent Skills
GuideOn skills as the missing layer in agentic coding — encoding tribal knowledge, composing with commands, and keeping the context window focused.
Feb 21, 2026→Agentic Coding Survival Guide
GuideA practical guide to agentic coding — context windows, tools, modes, prompting, system prompts, skills, spec-driven development, and warnings.
Feb 15, 2026→Developing with Confidence
ThoughtsOn using linters, type checkers, automated tests, and CI pipelines to build software with confidence instead of anxiety.
Dec 10, 2025→Perspectives on software development, tech stacks, and engineering philosophy
Practical tutorials and how-to articles for real-world development challenges
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