https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/ Technical deep-dives from a Staff DevRel Engineer @ Fly.io: agentic workflows, AI memory systems, voice AI, and what breaks along the way. en-us Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:44:46 GMT https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/everyone-has-claude-code-now-what/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/everyone-has-claude-code-now-what/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Good enough is now free. It’s the floor. The speech I keep giving my friends about standing out, and the terminal I built to take my own advice. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/a-checkpoint-is-not-a-safety-net/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/a-checkpoint-is-not-a-safety-net/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sprites can snapshot and restore an agent computer. The harder part is knowing which checkpoint was safe, healthy, and worth restoring. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/agents-need-computers-humans-need-monitors/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/agents-need-computers-humans-need-monitors/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Persistent agent work needs restore points a human can trust. Checkpoints need context, agents need bounded computers, and humans need monitors. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/cloud-pricing-is-a-ux-problem/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/cloud-pricing-is-a-ux-problem/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Cloud bills get painful when the pricing model hides what the app is actually doing. This is about CPU, memory, state, agents, and surprise. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/dont-build-a-second-product-for-voice/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/dont-build-a-second-product-for-voice/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT A Deepgram Voice Agent pattern for adding realtime voice to an AI app that already has auth, memory, tools, and transcripts. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/ai-agent-access/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/ai-agent-access/ Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT What building AI memory taught me about authorization for agents, vector search, delegated access, and why relevance is not permission. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/voice-agents-need-receipts/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/voice-agents-need-receipts/ Sat, 23 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT RecallMEM now has a Deepgram voice agent with app-controlled memory. Voice made the memory layer stricter: no quote, no memory. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/llm-was-the-easy-part/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/llm-was-the-easy-part/ Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT I thought RecallMEM was a local chatbot project. The model call took almost no time. The real work was persistence, memory, files, tokens, setup, and all the boring systems that make an AI app usable. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/ai-engineering-new-web-dev/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/ai-engineering-new-web-dev/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT The same cycle that made web dev the path into tech is repeating with AI. But the tools are better, the learning curve is different, and the ceiling is way higher. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/coding-used-to-be-hard/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/coding-used-to-be-hard/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT I miss when coding was hard. The frustration was the craft. Now AI writes the code and developers are having an identity crisis. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/study-mode/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/study-mode/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT How I turned a voice-first AI journal into a Socratic tutor that teaches through conversation, quizzes you until you get it right, and won't let you fake understanding. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/ai-memory-is-broken/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/ai-memory-is-broken/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Building Speak2Me, a voice-first AI journal that actually knows your story. The hard lessons from building real AI memory systems. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/college-picker/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/college-picker/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT College rankings don't help. I built an AI-powered tool that compares colleges based on actual financial outcomes. Not vibes. Not rankings. Money. https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/speak-it/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/speak-it/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Privacy-first style learning with TiDB vector search. Can you teach an AI how someone writes by storing statistics only? https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/ai-journal-system/ https://chrisdabatos.com/blog/ai-journal-system/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT Most journaling apps are just storage. I built a system that watches my entries, finds patterns in my thinking, and writes my life story in third person - like a biographer following me around.