Fred McDavid
Hi, I’m Fred McDavid. I’m a backend software engineer, maker, and taker-on of Projects. Professionally, I design fast systems that are stable and well-tested. Lately, I use AI agents to build such things much more quickly than I used to.
Outside of work, I build fences, rehab old farm structures back into usable shape, and keep the trails on our farm clear enough for our boarders to ride on. When I can, I make time to catch a nearby concert or brew a batch of beer.
My wife and I run a small horse-boarding business on our farm and we operate a handful of rental properties through Landmetrics, our residential real estate business.
This site is home base, mostly links to elsewhere.
FrameworkLabs Posts
FrameworkLabs is where I post on AI and related topics
The Filesystem Your Agent Already Speaks
A lot of the ideas in this piece on the new Ambiance harness seem obvious as I read the post, but not in a bad way. It’s more like giving voice to a few things that have been bouncing around in my …
ECC: 228K Stars for an Agent Harness
I read a piece on the ECC agent harness and I did a bit of a double-take on the GitHub stars: 228,000 stars for a Claude Code configuration system built by one person over ten months. Not a new model, …
GraphRAG and the Pyramid I'd Only Half-Built
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has a bit of a problem with the relations between the chunks. I’ve thought about a few solutions and the one I think is the most promising involves a series of …
Private MCP Servers Available to ChatGPT (not Codex or Claude Code)
I saved OpenAI’s write-up on private MCP servers because it’s an interesting glimpse at an infrastructure construct that OpenAI has made available to allow ChatGPT to connect to private MCP servers …
SproutRAG: The Pyramid Idea, Grown Without an LLM
When I’m in my Zen garden (mowing), I’m often mentally sketching an idea I’ve had for a while around the notion of a pyramid of summaries of varying detail that will help a RAG pipeline provide …