Jack Gordley

Jack Gordley

Software Engineer at Grafana Labs working on AI evals, observability, and incident investigation. Previously Amazon Bedrock. Go Irish 🍀

Every word typed out on this blog is my own, by hand, not by an LLM. I still believe blogging and most writing to be a uniquely human activity.

Recent writing

Recent pieces from this blog and external articles I wrote for companies or projects.

/Grafana Blog/External

Introducing o11y-bench: an open benchmark for AI agents running observability workflows

/AWS Machine Learning Blog/External

Build reliable AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations

/gordles.io/Blog

LLM Context-Friendly Test Suite Outputs (build-output-tools-mcp)

/gordles.io/Blog

The Most Cost-Effective LLM Coding Loadout for the Casual Developer

/gordles.io/Blog

From Text to Action: How LLMs Became AI Agents

On this blog

Posts published here on AI systems, developer tools, agents, and side projects.

/gordles.io/Blog

LLM Context-Friendly Test Suite Outputs (build-output-tools-mcp)

Post covering an MCP tool to run tests/builds and routes the output to a smaller, specialized LLM for summarization to avoid flooding the main context thread of Claude Code.

/gordles.io/Blog

The Most Cost-Effective LLM Coding Loadout for the Casual Developer

TLDR; Claude Pro with Claude Code + OpenRouter Zen MCP

/gordles.io/Blog

From Text to Action: How LLMs Became AI Agents

A mini-history lesson on how LLMs gained the ability to execute actions and the state of Agents in 2025

/gordles.io/Blog

Calvin - An Open-Source Google Calendar Assistant

In-depth project rundown of a Langchain assistant that can manage your Google Calendar

External writing

Articles I wrote or co-wrote for a company, product, or project outside this blog.

/Grafana Blog/External

Introducing o11y-bench: an open benchmark for AI agents running observability workflows

Open benchmark for evaluating AI agents on observability workflows.

/AWS Machine Learning Blog/External

Build reliable AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations

A practical walkthrough of agent evaluation across development and production.

Game dev projects

A few game jams I've participated in.