Smarter has always cached the expensive parts of an AI platform (database reads on every request, calls to slow and billable third-party APIs) with one decorator, @cache_results(). Until today, the only way to use it was to run Smarter. As…
Smarter uses Calico to enforce Kubernetes NetworkPolicies that start its production namespace from deny-all, in both directions, and then admit traffic by pod label. MariaDB and Redis accept connections only from pods labelled app.kubernetes.io/application-group=smarter, the app accepts web traffic only…
It’s common knowledge that Claude Code is good at troubleshooting. Paste in a stack trace or describe the unexpected behavior, and it reads the code, forms a theory, tests it and usually finds the cause. I use it that way…
Updated October 27 for v0.36.25. v0.33 and v0.34 were about the prompt engineer’s path from a first prompt to a deployed LLMClient. v0.35 and v0.36, released on October 20 and 21, are about two other people. The first is the…
v0.30 to v0.32 were about the people who use the web console. v0.33 and v0.34, released between October 17 and 19, are about the prompt engineer’s path from a first prompt to a deployed LLMClient. You can now see the…
This is part 3 of Converge or Diverge, a three-part series about AI coding agents in a large codebase. Part 1: Maintaining Long-Term Code Quality With Agentic AI · Part 2: The Antipattern That Makes a Codebase Diverge · Part…
v0.27 to v0.29 made Smarter extensible. v0.30 to v0.32, released on October 16 and 17, are about the people who use the web console. The console is now translated into Spanish, French and Brazilian Portuguese, and it picks your language…
v0.24 to v0.26 got Smarter ready to run in public. v0.27 to v0.29, released on October 15 and 16, change how Smarter grows. A new tool for your LLMs used to mean a change to Smarter itself and a new…
v0.21 to v0.23 published the Smarter API as a contract. v0.24 to v0.26, released on October 14 and 15, are about running a Smarter platform in public. Every platform now runs its own MCP server, with the Smarter Project’s code…
v0.20 was a maintenance release. v0.21 to v0.23, released between October 12 and 14, are about the Smarter API as a product. The platform now publishes a machine-readable contract of its whole API, a second official SDK is built from…