Hugo Ander Kivi
Senior software engineer. I build the architecture that lets AI-augmented teams move fast without breaking the rules that matter.
My contract-based governance framework runs in production on a high-throughput transaction platform that processes hundreds of millions of operations a day. It encodes business invariants into versioned contracts and binds them to the agent at the moment of the task, so AI-augmented work ships without a human re-reviewing every step. I operate this work through Substrate Systems, my software company.
Governance as compression: contracts and skills for AI-augmented codebases
The contract-and-skill pattern I shipped to production, and the controlled three-condition benchmark that showed the binding mechanism — not the documentation — is what moves outcomes.
Read →Lazy loading vs. instruction-following
The direct follow-up: why skill-triggered loading reliably outperforms bulk-context approaches — the cognitive distinction between retrieval and instruction-following that explains the benchmark gap.
Read →- Exomem vs mem0, Letta, Zep, cognee, and Basic Memory: an honest comparison of memory for AI agentsJuly 4, 2026
- The complete guide to setting up a new Windows PCJuly 4, 2026
- Share your whole app setup as one file (yes, even MSI Afterburner)July 4, 2026
- A free, open-source alternative to EaseUS Todo PCTrans, Zinstall, and Laplink PCmoverJuly 3, 2026
- How to reinstall all your apps with winget (and what it misses)July 3, 2026
- How to set up a new Windows PC in minutes, not a weekendJuly 3, 2026
- Why winget export skips your Microsoft Store appsJuly 3, 2026
Q
AI knowledge infrastructure. Turn a content library into a branded, searchable knowledge base with citations back to the original source.
Endstate
Capture a Windows machine's apps and settings, then restore them on a fresh install. Local-first, with optional end-to-end encrypted backup. A shipped desktop product.
Exomem
External memory for MCP-capable agents over an owned Markdown and Obsidian vault. Agents get durable context; the user keeps the files, provenance, and review loop.