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A developer-perspective publication on AI engineering and the Canadian AI scene. Long-form Chronicles anchored to real tools you can run, a weekly sourced Digest, and the open code behind every claim.
01 Chronicles
long-form build logs, each anchored to code you can run
02 Digest issues
the Canadian AI week in five minutes, every claim cited
00 Open tools
forkable harnesses and starters, MIT in the open
10 Min of build log
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§01 · Featured [ all chronicles ]
§02 · What this is
01 Chronicles
Long-form build logs
Deep dives on AI engineering, agents, RAG, and evals. Every piece anchored to a real tool shipped in the open.
[ browse chronicles ]→ 02 DigestThe Canadian AI week, sourced
What shipped, who raised, what the public funding looks like. Five minutes every Sunday, every claim cited.
[ read the digest ]→ 03 ToolsThe code behind the writing
Open-source harnesses and starters we build to make a point. Forkable, runnable, no slideware.
[ open the tools ]→ §03 · The pipeline
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Not a promise: a process. Each article's code runs through a five-stage loop agent in an isolated micro-VM. The model is only summoned when something fails. A passing run costs zero tokens.
LAST RUN run #1 2026-06-12 ALL CHECKS PASSED 19 blocks · $0.0000 tokens · executor:
firecracker µVM
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PASSEvery import resolved against the real library.
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PASSFresh micro-VM per snippet. No secrets. 5s wall.
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§02 · This week [ all issues ]
№ 02 Jun 22, 2026
issue 02: follow the money
A funding-focused brief: who's raising in Canadian AI, who's deploying, and the open-weight model that changed the licence conversation.
[ read the digest ]The Canadian AI week in five minutes. Sourced, not recycled press releases.
[ subscribe ] §05 · Protocol
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