independent systems studio · vienna, at
Writing, tutorials and tools on agentic AI, knowledge systems and the built world — engineered by Mohammed Kmail.
selected work
Three weeks after Jev launched as the only System One model, the category has five new open models on Ollama (Nimble 9B, Tev1 4B/0.8B, Clef 27B, Clef-Flash 9B), a native /v1/systemone endpoint in Ollama 0.35, llama.cpp support, and a three-way benchmark war. The full map of the wave, with the honest reading of every number.
ai · 15 min · 2026-10-03
Two models defined the decision-model category in September 2026. Jev is a hosted frontier API; Laya is Apache 2.0 weights you can run on your own hardware. For a public body that difference decides whether the technology is admissible at all — measured against the EU four-level sovereignty framework.
ai · 18 min · 2026-09-27
Two camps rule agent building — hand everything to the model, or route every path by hand. n8n owns the middle: a fair-code canvas with 2,273 integrations, LangChain-powered agents, per-execution pricing, and a production ops story most coverage skips. Everything numeric here traces to a primary source.
tech · 15 min · 2026-09-27
Prompt engineering asked what words; context engineering asks what configuration of context is most likely to produce the desired behavior — curated every turn, because the window is a budget. The full map: the 2025 coining, the measured evidence, the four levers, a 14-pattern playbook with code, and the honest counter-theses.
ai · 31 min · 2026-09-18
Most of the data that decides whether a business works is a table. On tables, gradient-boosted trees still win — not from inertia, but from inductive bias. The published evidence, the mechanism, the operational reasons, and the exact line where deep learning takes over.
ai · 12 min · 2026-09-17
Frontier models only run in the cloud — but does that mean handing your business secrets to a provider? Zero Data Retention is the answer. This article breaks down the technology, compares the policies of Ollama Cloud, OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic against their own documentation, shows the risks that ZDR does not solve, and delivers a verifiable due-diligence plan for companies.
ai · 18 min · 2026-09-16
the library
courses
Mermaid — Diagrams as Code
26 pages · 2026-09-09
Knowledge Management: Run a KCS Program
13 pages · 2026-09-05
marimo: The Reactive Python Notebook
28 pages · 2026-09-04
Hermes Agent Full Course: Build & Sell (2026)
27 pages · 2026-08-23
GraphRAG in Python: Agentic AI with Knowledge Graphs
15 pages · 2026-08-23
open source
ascii-studio
turn any image into ASCII art, right in your browser
bim-execution-plan
author, version and validate ISO 19650 BIM Execution Plans
eu-ai-act
navigate, understand and apply the EU AI Act from your terminal
kmail-memo-agent
unified memory + semantic grep for AI agents
kmail-save-tokens
translate coding-agent prompts into token-efficient instructions
kmailai
the Kmail AI coding agent, in your terminal
field guide
A working guide to knowledge management — the theory, the preservation process, the methods, the technology, and 4 domains of real work behind it.
Knowledge management, agentic AI, and architectural design — the built world was the first place systems thinking was learned, and it still grounds everything here.
