“Agentic Exposure” Is Not the Same as Agent Engineering
Why experience with the latest agent framework matters less than understanding context, cost, permissions and deterministic execution boundaries.
Building production AI systems · Experimenting with local models
compusential
Journal of a passionate technologist building production AI Tools (RAG platforms, intelligent query systems, and agentic workflows). Hacker of local models across an NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB Unified VRAM) & an RTX 4090, rangefinder shooter (Leica M10 with Summicron 35 & Summilux 50 ASPH), and trilingual builder based in England.
⚡ Production AI
RAG, Chatbots & Multi-Agent Systems
🖥️ Local Lab
NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB & RTX 4090 (70B+ local inference)
📷 In The Bag
Leica M10 + 35mm Summicron & 50mm Summilux ASPH
⭐ Featured Origin Story
·Origin Lore & Silicon History
The Origin of Compusential: From a Bricked RIVA 128 to CUDA
From bricking an NVIDIA RIVA 128 at 13 in Beijing to working at NVIDIA as the GeForce 8800 GTX and CUDA opened a new era of GPU computing—the origin of Compusential.
Visual Journal
Moments through the viewfinder — optical essence, landscapes & natural light.
Recent Notes & Essays
All posts (7) →The Local Silicon Equation: Why I Keep 128GB of AI Compute in My Office
Why I keep an RTX 4090 and a quiet, 128GB NVIDIA DGX Spark in my small office—and how local hardware creates room to experiment beyond the cloud billing meter.
When an Enterprise AI Agent Goes Rogue
A Rovo agent created a Jira issue in the wrong project—revealing why enterprise AI needs deterministic context boundaries, not probabilistic guesswork.
Bitcoin Mining in 2011: GPUs, Scams and the ASIC Arms Race
A first-hand account of early GPU mining, moving Bitcoin between Europe and China, losing coins to BitScalper, and watching delayed ASIC hardware become obsolete.