About the author
Ken W Alger
@kenwalger
Developer educator and advocate who still ships code. 15 years teaching developers at MongoDB, Heroku, Cisco, and Treehouse. Now writing about AI-assisted development, agent memory, and provenance.
Oregon
Aug 17
The Kitchen Doesn't Care About Your Excuses
There is a moment in every high-stakes environment when something goes completely, objectively wrong,...
Aug 13
Durable Memory: Why Vector Databases Aren't Enough
Part 3 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series After finishing Part 2, I noticed something. The...
Aug 17
The Build-Optimizer
(Orchestration and the Yield Calculator) We have scanned the geometry of the oak. We have...
Aug 12
AI Access Control for Enterprise AI: Turning Policy Into Runtime Enforcement
API keys authenticate software. Policy objects decide what that software is allowed to do. The...
Aug 11
Three Pastry Chefs Walk Into a Kitchen
This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art. ...
Aug 6
Material Provenance
(Agentic Memory and the Digital Passport) In moving into the workshop, we’re working on a...
Aug 3
The Master Woodworker
(Computer Vision and the Material Memory of Oak) The harvest is tucked away in the cellar,...
Jul 30
AI Governance for Enterprise AI: The AI Gateway as an Enforcement Layer
Governance decides what AI is allowed to do. The gateway only enforces it. Every technology shift...
Jul 28
Active Working Memory: The RAM of Agentic Systems
Part 2 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series When I published the first article in this series,...
Jul 23
The Resilient Farm
(The Final Gamble and the Zero-Waste Finale) The primary harvest is over. The bins are...
Jul 22
The Context Window Isn't Memory. It's the CPU Cache of AI.
One of the most common misconceptions in modern AI is that a larger context window somehow "solves"...
Jul 16
The Supply Chain Guardian
(Provenance, Logistics, and the Unbroken Chain) Our last post on a Pivot Engine identified a 96 hour...