Writing from
the studio.
Essays and field notes on AI-native software, product design, workflow, and the decisions behind what the studio ships.
The latest essay, front and center.
Inside MetaScope 1.5's Vision Stack: The Models and How We Configured Them
The engineering behind MetaScope 1.5's on-device recognition: Apple Vision and SigLIP2 over one image decode, calibrated onto one confidence scale, producing portable metadata.
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Building Agentic AI Systems That Respect the EU AI Act
The EU AI Act is not a compliance tax on agentic AI. It is close to a specification for building agents you can actually trust. Here is how we read it as engineers, and why an EU footprint and data residency are a structural advantage, not a constraint.
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We didn't adopt AI. We built an operating system around it.
How Zalo Design Studio builds MetaScope with one human product owner and two AI agents, Claude and Codex, coordinated through GitHub under a shared constitution, skills, hooks, and a reflection loop.
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How we taught Claude to speak Apple's language
Generic AI writes generic code. By giving Claude a curated, local view of Apple's framework documentation, we cut rework loops and ship macOS work that feels native on day one.