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# Giorgio Garofalo

> Giorgio Garofalo is a software engineer at Falconer and open source enthusiast. He is the author and lead of the [Quarkdown](https://quarkdown.com) open source project.

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Author

# Giorgio Garofalo

Software Engineer at Falconer

Giorgio Garofalo is a software engineer at Falconer and open source enthusiast. He is the author and lead of the [Quarkdown](https://quarkdown.com) open source project.

[](https://x.com/iiamgio)[](https://www.linkedin.com/in/giorgio-garofalo/)[](https://github.com/iamgio)

## Notes from Giorgio Garofalo

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October 21, 2026

## Documentation has a new purpose

Agents now handle the step-by-step tasks docs used to explain, so documentation has to serve people and agents at once. Public Docs, in beta now, publishes customer-facing documentation from the same knowledge base your team already uses internally.

By Giorgio Garofalo

](https://falconer.com/notes/documentation-new-purpose)[

June 11, 2026

## Agent loops are fine, retrieval is what you're paying for

Inefficient retrieval is burning your token budget. When the first search comes back incomplete, context grows and the bill follows.

By Giorgio Garofalo

](https://falconer.com/notes/agent-loops-retrieval-cost)[

June 3, 2026

## Stop freeloading off open source

Most teams quietly work around the rough edges of the open source libraries they depend on. We decided to fix them at the source instead, contributing patches upstream to Tiptap, the framework behind Falconer's editor.

By Giorgio Garofalo

](https://falconer.com/notes/stop-freeloading-open-source)