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LOG Writing - field reports

Notes from production.

What held, what broke, and what was cheaper the second time - hands-on, from my own projects.

AUG 02, 2026

LLM-Personalized Email Campaigns with Python, Gmail, and Local AI

A local LLM turns CSV rows into individualized Gmail campaigns, with preview, throttled sending, thread-based reply tracking, and classification.

AI INTEGRATION · 7 MIN
JUL 20, 2026

Implementation Lessons: Hidden Headaches of a Local Gmail AI Agent

The Gmail API details that quietly shaped a local email agent: history-based sync, label semantics, threading, and the failure modes each one hides.

AI INTEGRATION · 9 MIN
JUL 08, 2026

How I nearly doubled my premium model capacity without paying more

Treating the most expensive model as an R&D department instead of a coder: it plans, a critic reviews, cheaper agents execute. With the measured ledger.

AI ENGINEERING · 16 MIN
JUN 02, 2026

LLM as Router: Intent Classification for a Local Telegram Email Agent

A local LLM routes Telegram messages to intent handlers: slash commands first, natural language as the fallback, and only when nothing cheaper parses.

AI ENGINEERING · 11 MIN

EXT Published elsewhere

Local-first AI, in public.

FREECODECAMP

How to Handle Small Context Window Limits in RAG Systems

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