Practical architecture, agentic engineering, and governed AI delivery for teams with real systems to run.https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/are-we-all-llms/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/are-we-all-llms/A field note on monkey mind, inner monologue, simulation arguments, bodies as tool calls, and why the metaphor is provocative rather than settled science.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-machine-ego/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-machine-ego/Advanced AI systems are starting to display ego-like behaviours: self-protection, narrative continuity, and resistance patterns that matter for agent design.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-portable-radical-geek-ecosystem/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-portable-radical-geek-ecosystem/Why Radical Geek, Rembr, OpenClaw, and AxiaCraft are starting to fit together as a practical agentic engineering stack.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-tale-of-sir-cedric-the-unready/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-tale-of-sir-cedric-the-unready/A short engineering fable about tools, readiness, and the dangerous habit of mistaking AI assistance for capability.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-subsidy-is-over-how-ai-vendors-used-builders-to-sell-to-enterprises-and-are-now-cutting-them-off/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-subsidy-is-over-how-ai-vendors-used-builders-to-sell-to-enterprises-and-are-now-cutting-them-off/Flat-rate AI pricing helped builders prove the market. Now vendors are moving toward token-based economics and enterprise capture.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/securing-the-future-defending-against-ai-powered-vulnerability-discovery/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/securing-the-future-defending-against-ai-powered-vulnerability-discovery/AI can now find vulnerabilities faster than traditional security processes can respond. Defence needs to move at machine speed too.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/token-efficiency-in-the-age-of-llms-languages-compression-and-the-art-of-saying-more-with-less/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/token-efficiency-in-the-age-of-llms-languages-compression-and-the-art-of-saying-more-with-less/Token efficiency is not about saying less. It is about preserving meaning while reducing cost, latency, and context pressure.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/how-i-built-an-enterprise-grade-end-to-end-agentic-engineering-platform-the-productfoundry-part-1/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/how-i-built-an-enterprise-grade-end-to-end-agentic-engineering-platform-the-productfoundry-part-1/I’ve been building out something for the last couple of months that has changed my work forever: a fleet of [...]Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:10:22 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-hypnotists-prompt-what-100-years-of-trance-science-tells-us-about-engineering-ai/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-hypnotists-prompt-what-100-years-of-trance-science-tells-us-about-engineering-ai/Prompt engineering and hypnosis both shape complex systems through perspective, context, and permission. That parallel has practical lessons for AI engineering.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/beyond-the-prompt-context-is-the-why-behind-every-decision/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/beyond-the-prompt-context-is-the-why-behind-every-decision/Prompting tells an AI what to do. Context tells it why the work matters, what has already been decided, and what boundaries it must respect.Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/is-your-ide-holding-you-back-the-growing-feature-gap-in-ai-powered-development-tools/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/is-your-ide-holding-you-back-the-growing-feature-gap-in-ai-powered-development-tools/AI development tools are diverging quickly. The IDE is no longer just where you type code; it is becoming an orchestration surface.Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/beyond-storage-why-ai-needs-an-intelligent-context-layer/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/beyond-storage-why-ai-needs-an-intelligent-context-layer/AI memory cannot just be a vector database. Useful agent memory needs relationships, contradictions, temporal recall, and quality control.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/slash-your-ai-costs-and-improve-responses-with-rembr-and-recursive-language-models/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/slash-your-ai-costs-and-improve-responses-with-rembr-and-recursive-language-models/A practical look at how recursive model patterns and persistent memory can reduce token waste while improving agent output quality.Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/ai-in-2026-the-context-layer-problem-and-how-to-solve-it/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/ai-in-2026-the-context-layer-problem-and-how-to-solve-it/AI systems do not just need better prompts. They need a context layer that can preserve decisions, retrieve relevant history, and make agent work durable.Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/how-to-update-a-gcp-loadbalancer-url-path-maps-on-cloud-run-deployment/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/how-to-update-a-gcp-loadbalancer-url-path-maps-on-cloud-run-deployment/I have recently been doing some work on a new GCP project, and came a cross a frustrating scenario, so [...]Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:08:59 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/adding-a-gpu-node-to-a-k3s-cluster/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/adding-a-gpu-node-to-a-k3s-cluster/I recently wanted to add a GPU node to my K3S cluster and found the documentation a little lacking so [...]Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:54:03 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/is-your-postgresql-instance-configured-incorrectly-introducing-pg-analyser/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/is-your-postgresql-instance-configured-incorrectly-introducing-pg-analyser/This week a client expressed a concern that their PostgreSQL Database instance may have a number of misconfigurations. Things like [...]Fri, 08 Mar 2024 15:08:14 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/nevermind-the-buzzterms-heres-anarchy-in-the-dev-day/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/nevermind-the-buzzterms-heres-anarchy-in-the-dev-day/In a world where the unexpected has become the norm, the pandemic has not only reshaped our lives but also dramatically transformed the landscape of work—especially within the realm of software development. As we navigated through lock downs and social distancThu, 15 Feb 2024 16:24:03 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-art-of-crafting-software-architecture/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/the-art-of-crafting-software-architecture/Architecting a software system is an intricate and multifaceted process that extends far beyond the mere creation of diagrams or [...]Sun, 11 Feb 2024 10:16:33 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/navigating-the-fine-line-of-microservices-when-a-pattern-is-an-anti-pattern/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/navigating-the-fine-line-of-microservices-when-a-pattern-is-an-anti-pattern/Introduction The world of microservices architecture is intricate, often presenting a razor-thin line between efficient design patterns and risky anti-patterns. [...]Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:38:53 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/building-microservices-the-service-chassis/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/building-microservices-the-service-chassis/One way I like to deal with many of the issues that come with designing a Microservice system is to [...]Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:36:36 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/building-a-choreographed-microservice-architecture-with-the-decorated-saga-pattern/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/building-a-choreographed-microservice-architecture-with-the-decorated-saga-pattern/Having recently read the second edition of Sam Newman's book "Building Microservices" I felt the need to discuss an approach [...]Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:30:49 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/part-7-installing-gitlab-and-the-gitlab-runner/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/part-7-installing-gitlab-and-the-gitlab-runner/This is the seventh article in a series covering detailing building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In the first [...]Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:14:27 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/part-5-kubernetes-and-traefik-dashboards/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/part-5-kubernetes-and-traefik-dashboards/This is the sixth article in a series covering detailing building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In the first [...]Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:12:29 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/part-6-certificate-manager-and-load-balancing-reverse-proxy/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/part-6-certificate-manager-and-load-balancing-reverse-proxy/This is the fifth article in a series covering detailing building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In the first [...]Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:11:40 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/building-a-personal-development-cloud-raspberry-pi-4-kubernetes-synology-openwrt-part-4-iscsi-persistent-volumes-with-automated-volume-snapshots/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/building-a-personal-development-cloud-raspberry-pi-4-kubernetes-synology-openwrt-part-4-iscsi-persistent-volumes-with-automated-volume-snapshots/If you have been following along with these articles so far, you should now have a working PoE powered Raspberry [...]Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:28:10 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/setting-up-the-pis/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/setting-up-the-pis/This is the third post in the series detailing how to set up a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In [...]Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:19:55 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/installing-a-k3s-cluster/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/installing-a-k3s-cluster/This is the second article in a series covering detailing building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In the first [...]Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:18:14 GMThttps://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/building-a-personal-development-cloud-raspberry-pi-4-kubernetes-synology-openwrt/https://www.radicalgeek.co.uk/building-a-personal-development-cloud-raspberry-pi-4-kubernetes-synology-openwrt/In this series of articles I am going to detail how I built a private development cloud with the following [...]Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:17:46 GMT