Essays

Everything I've written on The Davenporter, newest first. Most posts start with a question someone asked me, then work through what I've tried, what broke, and what I'd do next. The WIBTM series covers what I'm building right now, and why.

Latest · Jun 11, 2026 · 6 min read

WIBTD/W/M: A fool's folly with local AI models

Failures, learnings, and hopefully good next steps to being realistic about developing AI models and methods. When I originally come up with the ‘What I built this ….’ concept, it was about sharing things I built that I thought might be useful with the community make AI and cloud computing things easier.

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Jun 04, 2026 · 5 min read WIBTM · Source Control · Model Routing

WIBTD/W/M: Routing AI responses between local runners

Extending smartrouter to support calling local AI models that are a part of a pool of workers, learnings and tribulations, and things I'm planning to do next

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May 28, 2026 · 3 min read WIBTM · Source Control · Model Routing

What I'm building this week: Route your Gemini API calls on your terms

A little router I'm building and improving to use different Gemini (and soon other) models.

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Git files vs. a symbol graph

From "WIBTM: What happens when you let an agent design a new git system?" — why cosm locks functions instead of files so several agents can edit the same codebase at once.

Core themes from the archive
Theme	Essay	Code
Why your coding agent needs a blast-radius tool	WIBTM: What happens when you let an agent design a new git system?	`davenportjw/cosm`
How I built a self-improving coding system	Give an agent access to memories...	`davenportjw/agentic-memory`
The warehouse and hybrid model routing	WIBTD/M/L: Routing AI responses between local and cloud models	`davenportjw/smartrouter` & `warehouse-dash`

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