https://mielony.com Software engineer writing about AI agents, LLM engineering, CAD and 3D printing, and video games. Notes, tools and code built to survive the real world. en https://mielony.com/blog/self-improvement-by-cron https://mielony.com/blog/self-improvement-by-cron Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tomasz Kwiatek A nightly cron job scans my agent's session transcripts for friction, verifies each finding against the real skill files, and leaves a digest of proposed fixes. https://mielony.com/blog/path-tracing-doom-on-macos https://mielony.com/blog/path-tracing-doom-on-macos Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tomasz Kwiatek macOS has no Vulkan ray tracing, so I ported path-traced Doom 2 to Apple Silicon on patched MoltenVK with Metal RT. Download it and read every patch. https://mielony.com/blog/polyglot-is-the-new-compiler https://mielony.com/blog/polyglot-is-the-new-compiler Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tomasz Kwiatek Haxe was built so you would never write the same program twice. AI made the writing cheap — but not the proof. What a compiler still does that a model cannot. https://mielony.com/blog/path-tracing-doom-on-intel-arc https://mielony.com/blog/path-tracing-doom-on-intel-arc Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tomasz Kwiatek Getting PrBoom+ RT running on an Arc A770 meant debugging a Vulkan renderer written for Nvidia. Every patch and the performance it bought. https://mielony.com/blog/build-your-own-agent-skillset https://mielony.com/blog/build-your-own-agent-skillset Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tomasz Kwiatek Every dev once built a private framework and every studio weighed a custom engine. What building my own agent skillset bought me — and when it's wrong. https://mielony.com/blog/sampling-parameters-as-substances https://mielony.com/blog/sampling-parameters-as-substances Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tomasz Kwiatek Temperature, top-p, context window — explained through a comparison nobody expects. A plain-language guide to how LLMs pick their next word. https://mielony.com/blog/perfect-kotlet-mielony https://mielony.com/blog/perfect-kotlet-mielony Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tomasz Kwiatek A deep dive into the techniques, ingredients, and secrets behind Poland's most beloved breaded cutlet.