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Flink

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Oct 05, 2026 14 min read

What does the agent know right now? Testing a webinar's idea with a local LLM

A talk from IBM, Confluent and Google Cloud argued that AI agents fail for lack of fresh, refined context, not for lack of a better model. I rebuilt the idea with Kafka, Flink, MCP and a local LLM, then asked one question four ways.
Oct 02, 2026 11 min read

Kafka, Flink and a local LLM: a fraud loop that closes itself

A working demo of an event-driven AI system. Kafka carries what is happening, Flink works out what matters, and a local LLM investigates each alert and decides what the bank does next.