The Scalably blog

Field notes and working guides.

Practical guides and measured field reports on business agents, agent engineering, local inference and SEO.

54 articles · 1–12

Claude · Agents·Field report

Context compaction made our agent blame the user

Our runtime's own compaction interrupt was recorded as the user refusing a tool. Why the SDK can't say who interrupted, and the fix we shipped.

Read article →
Local inference·Field report

Qwen Flash on two RTX 5090s: speed, cache and the queue

Completed 256K output, returning-prefix reuse and a 226-second overload probe. Serving results, failure boundaries and reproduction recipes.

Read article →
Local inference·Benchmark

MoE vs dense LLM inference: vLLM benchmark on two RTX 5090s

A 35B mixture-of-experts model against the dense 27B we run in production, on the same two GPUs with the same vLLM flags: 106 measured cells, KV capacity, tool calls, and where each one wins.

Read article →
Agents·Guide

How I work with you: a private AI partner, not an agency

The whole engagement on one page: measured baseline, scope on paper, a 30-day sprint with written acceptance, monthly ownership, gates instead of dates, liability first, and what I refuse to build.

Read article →
Local inference·Field report

Qwen3.8-27B NVFP4 on two RTX 5090s: production field report

What Qwen, Unsloth, vLLM and Blackwell each contribute, the exact serving configuration, fourteen days of production counters, the failure modes, the official recipe compared, and the planned post-training loop.

Read article →
Claude·Guide

Claude Code agent teams: what they are, when to use them

What a team is, how the lead, teammates, task list, and hooks fit, what it costs, and why a production content pipeline runs subagents with file handoff instead.

Read article →
Claude·Guide

Claude Code memory: CLAUDE.md, auto memory, and rules

CLAUDE.md scopes and load order, path-scoped rules, how auto memory and its 200-line index work, what survives compaction, and the failure modes of memory at scale.

Read article →
Claude·Guide

Claude Code plugins: install, build, and distribute

What a plugin contains, the two-step marketplace install, building with --plugin-dir, the marketplace file, and when a standalone .claude directory is the better answer.

Read article →
Claude·Guide

Claude Code skills: SKILL.md, triggers, and context cost

SKILL.md frontmatter that changes behavior, dynamic context and its failure modes, the listing budget, and a real /skill-doctor report from a 66-skill setup.

Read article →
Agents·Guide

AI agents in agriculture: from field update to decision

A privacy-safe implementation guide to work orders, voice and photo intake, source systems, human approval, recovery, and plan-vs-actual operations.

Read article →
Agents·Guide

AI agents for business: what works in practice

The implementation method: start with recurring work, separate facts from judgment, keep authority narrow, and prove the finished result where it lands.

Read article →
Codex·Guide

Codex skills: build reusable workflows that trigger

A complete SKILL.md, the trigger design that decides whether it runs, how to split scripts from judgment, and when a local skill should become a plugin.

Read article →