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Improving AI Review with AI Review

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100

Agentic Loops and How to Use Them

Executive Summary

Over the course of a few sessions with Claude Code, I took an existing multi-agent CI code review system and refactored it into a proper Claude Code plugin — complete with a marketplace definition, a /teim-review slash command for local use, and a single orchestration agent that replaced three separate Ansible-driven Claude invocations. The final commit was 26 files changed, 601 insertions, 397 deletions.

Three Months with AI: Building, Coding, and Contributing

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0100

Three Months with AI: From Experiment to Daily Workflow

Over the past three months, I’ve been intentionally exploring how AI can fit into my software development workflow. Here’s what I learned.

Building with AI: The Prototype Experiment

My initial foray into AI tooling was building a prototype to understand the fundamentals. I spent about 6 hours creating ca-bhfuil, a simple experiment in combining multiple AI components:

LangChain and LangGraph as the agent framework
Ollama for local LLM hosting
sqlite-vec as a basic vector database for RAG experimentation

The result was a very simple prototype using hardcoded data to demonstrate storing commit messages in a vector database, prompting an LLM to use RAG to retrieve relevant data, and generating responses. You can see an example response in the commit message.

Auto-Correcting Sean-Speak: Beyond Spell-Check to Real AI Assistance

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0100

Using AI to Write OpenStack Nova Specifications: A Real-World Experiment.

Background and Motivation

After attending the 2025.2 PTG and seeing the extensive backlog of specs that need to be written, reviewed, and implemented, I decided to run an experiment: can AI meaningfully help with the OpenStack specification process? Not just the writing, but the actual design thinking and technical architecture work that goes into a good Nova spec.

The motivation was simple - we have more good ideas than we have time to properly document them. Between my day job, core review responsibilities, and the general time constraints we all face, turning a concept into a well-structured, technically sound specification can take days or weeks. What if AI could help accelerate that process?

2025.2 Ptg

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:26:03 +0100

Watcher

PTG Etherpad

Overview

The 2025.2 PTG was the Second PTG i have attended for watcher. The last PTG had one session to cover all the technical debt required to revive the project. This time we extended the ptg to 2 days.

Day 1

Tech Debt

Croniter

The PTG started with a disscussion about technical debt that emerged during the epxoy cycle. This focused mainly on croniter, which is used by watcher to schedule continuous audits based on cron strings. The Croniter libaray maintainer has decided to stop maintaining this library and it is transitioning to a new maintainer. While that gives watcher some breathing space, our usage is minimal, so we agreed to drop the dependency by leveraging the existing functionality of apscheduler.

what is openstack

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 18:51:40 +0000

Intro to the OpenStack project