IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
279 articles
26 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
2026
AI isn't replacing tech leads — it's changing what great tech leadership looks like. After a year of working with AI coding tools daily, here are the 5 mental shifts every engineering leader needs to make in 2026.
Read more25 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
agents
As AI agents replace human workflows, your observability stack must evolve. A practical guide to tracing LLM calls, multi-agent chains, and tool use with OpenTelemetry — from a Tech Lead who's been there.
Read more24 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
agents
Prompt engineering gets you to demo. Context engineering gets you to production. Learn how controlling what information each agent receives determines whether your agentic system is reliable or brittle.
Read more23 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
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Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — review today's AI vocabulary (inference, RAG, grounding, embeddings), listening comprehension strategies for technical content.
Read more23 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
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Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering AI/ML vocabulary — inference, fine-tuning, embeddings, hallucination — with pronunciation guide and exercises.
Read more23 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
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Daily English practice for tech professionals. Noon session — AI vocabulary deep dive: RAG, grounding, chunking, reranking, and how to explain these concepts clearly.
Read more23 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
agents
Traditional OAuth and service accounts don't work for multi-agent AI systems. Here's what Uber and Auth0 discovered — and how to design agent identity the right way.
Read more22 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
agents
When AI agents write their own mocks, green tests prove only internal consistency — not correctness. A tech lead's guide to closing the verification gap before it costs you a production incident.
Read more21 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
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How to build AI evaluation pipelines that catch problems before production. The 3-tier eval framework, dataset curation, model-as-judge patterns, and CI/CD integration.
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