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Drinking from the firehose

I'm Willem van den Ende, partner at QWAN. This is where I write about agentic engineering, wishcraft, naive evals, and whatever prototype I'm building this week.

Recent posts

My local agentic dev setup today

Yesterday my LinkedIn post about cancelling my Claude Code Max plan went viral. People asked me about my local LLM setup. A quick post about what I am using today

April 29, 2026 Engineering

How to get started with the Pi coding agent (on a VPS)

Setting up Pi on a VPS is easier than I thought. Open source with a great unboxing experience. Follow along and enjoy!

April 24, 2026 Engineering

Smaller open LLMs now work for open agents.

The last ten days have seen a phase shift in quality and speed of open weight models and inference. I am still adjusting.

April 24, 2026 Engineering

Scheduled Publishing & Author Dashboard

Future-dated posts stay hidden until their publish date, authors get a dashboard to track drafts and scheduled content, and registration is locked down to invited emails only.

April 01, 2026 Releases

v0.1.0 Released

Initial release of Firehose

March 16, 2026 Releases

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