Nicolò Boschi — Software Engineer, Distributed Systems, AI Agents

Nicolò Boschi

Software engineer building things around distributed systems, AI agents, and developer tools. I like getting stuff done.

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That's not how you do business
Mar 24, 2026
Supermemory gamed a memory benchmark for viral reach, then called it a social experiment. Why stunts erode trust and what real benchmarking looks like.
Open source is a trust system. AI is breaking the contract.
Mar 16, 2026
AI lets people contribute to open source without understanding what they change. The OSS trust model needs human attestation, not just AI disclosure.
Not all agents are the same: task agents vs interaction agents
Mar 4, 2026
Task agents and interaction agents need different memory stacks. Latency, retrieval quality, and error tolerance diverge in ways most frameworks ignore.
AI won't replace engineers, it will replace project managers
Feb 28, 2026
AI coding agents eliminate the translation layer between users and code - the exact role PMs fill. Engineers who own the full product loop will thrive.
It was never about the code
Feb 16, 2026
A coworker rebuilt my two weeks of UI work with Claude in one weekend. The grief was real, but it revealed: the code was never the point.
Journey
2024 — present
Vectorize.io
Lead Software Engineer
AI agents & memory infrastructure
2024 — present
Vectorize.io
Lead Software Engineer
AI agents & memory infrastructure
2021 — 2024
DataStax
acquired by IBM
Software Engineer
Streaming, GenAI infrastructure
2021 — 2024
DataStax
acquired by IBM
Software Engineer
Streaming, GenAI infrastructure
2016 — 2021
Diennea
Software Engineer
Distributed systems & open source
2016 — 2021
Diennea
Software Engineer
Distributed systems & open source
Ongoing
Community
Open source contributions
Ongoing
Community
Open source contributions
Talks
Generative AI
How AI Systems Break at Scale and Why Memory Matters How Claude is Changing the Game for Private Data RAG Pattern + AWS Suite Scaling unstructured data indexing with Pulsar
Streaming & Apache Pulsar
Transactions in Pulsar Pulsar + ElasticSearch Pulsar Shell Demo
Personal Projects
dockerpyze
Automatically Dockerize Python apps with zero config
lkr
Spin up K8s clusters in 10 seconds flat
protatoquests
Automatic proxy rotation for anonymous web requests
asap
Blazing fast local Maven installs — skip the wait