https://thegh0xt.vercel.app Writing on backend systems, agentic tooling, history and photography. en https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/the-dilemma-of-transitioning https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/the-dilemma-of-transitioning What happens when you're experienced enough to know how to build production systems, but still need someone to give you a chance to prove you can do it in a new domain? Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:31:14 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/tools-resources-prompts https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/tools-resources-prompts Most MCP tutorials teach you tools and stop there. The protocol gives you three primitives, and they are three different cost and trust boundaries — which is where your latency, your permission surface and your duplicated prompts actually live. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:48:14 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/your-fallbacks-are-hiding-your-bugs https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/your-fallbacks-are-hiding-your-bugs Five bugs from one hackathon build. Every one of them failed silently, and every one failed silently for the same reason: the subsystem was designed to degrade instead of crash. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:49:52 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/claude-code-field-guide-for-my-foggy-neurodivergent-mind https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/claude-code-field-guide-for-my-foggy-neurodivergent-mind My personal reference for working with Claude Code — context management + the full build workflow. Written to skim, not to read cover to cover. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:40:00 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/notes-on-mcp-and-why-i-m-building-with-go https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/notes-on-mcp-and-why-i-m-building-with-go Notes on understanding and building with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) using Go. Rather than being a complete guide, this is a breakdown of the concepts, mental models, architecture decisions, and implementation details that helped me understand how MCP enables AI agents to interact with tools, resources, and external systems in a structured way. I also explore why I chose Go over the more common Python/TypeScript stack, how MCP transports work, and why I believe MCP has the potential to become a foundational capability layer for intelligent systems. If you are a backend engineer curious about AI infrastructure, agent systems, orchestration, or protocol design, this article is for you. Wed, 13 May 2026 04:55:09 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/architecting-agentic-systems-lessons-from-building-lineage-mcp-and-mergeoracle https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/architecting-agentic-systems-lessons-from-building-lineage-mcp-and-mergeoracle Discover how to build secure, context-aware AI systems. In this deep dive, I share my journey architecting the Lineage MCP server for blockchain execution and orchestrating multi-agent workflows with Google ADK to build MergeOracle—tackling precision errors, observability, and agent hallucinations along the way. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:41:05 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/distributed-system-and-consensus-theoretical-models https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/distributed-system-and-consensus-theoretical-models In this technical deep dive, I move past surface-level definitions to explore the theoretical foundations of distributed consensus. Written during a midnight study session in Lagos, this article serves as a comprehensive guide for aspiring protocol engineers. Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:46:36 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/on-purpose-confusion-and-the-next-task https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/on-purpose-confusion-and-the-next-task An entry of reflections on work, purpose, discipline, learning, and the mental noise that comes with building something and working towards growth Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:26:13 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/systems-programming-an-archive-of-concepts-and-implementations https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/systems-programming-an-archive-of-concepts-and-implementations A Living Archive of Concepts & Implementations I Am Encountering Transitioning To Protocol Engineering Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:28:36 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/music-is-beautiful https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/music-is-beautiful Music is indeed a gift to me Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:36:00 GMT https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/rediscovering-software-engineering https://thegh0xt.vercel.app/articles/rediscovering-software-engineering Just some internal monologue on what I am starting to understand in software engineering I am just touching. Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:50:34 GMT