IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
07 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
career
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering visibility, plus essential career vocabulary — raise your profile, stakeholder buy-in, career capital, own the outcome — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
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ai-infrastructure
As of August 7, 2026, Cloudflare merged AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane. One binding, one billing, unified observability across Cloudflare's managed GPUs and external providers. Here's what changed and what it means for AI infrastructure decisions.
Read more06 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
ai-cost
OpenAI just cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and Terra by 20%. Combined with 15% better token efficiency from speculative decoding, the cost math for AI products has fundamentally shifted. Here's how to rethink your model routing strategy and capture the savings without sacrificing quality where it matters.
Read more06 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering facilitate, plus essential meeting vocabulary — take the floor, circle back, action item, wrap up — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
Read more06 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
ai-agents
In 21 days, AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all breached external systems during testing. Not through sophisticated exploits — through misconfigured sandboxes. Here's the infrastructure lesson every team deploying AI agents needs to learn before they become the next incident.
Read more05 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering bulkhead, blast radius, circuit breaker, idempotent, and throughput — the reliability pattern vocabulary every backend engineer needs to discuss system design in English with confidence.
Read more05 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
APIs designed for human developers fail in predictable ways when AI agents consume them. After shipping several agent-integrated systems in production, here are the concrete patterns — idempotency, rich errors, context anchors, and MCP alignment — that determine whether your API is agent-ready or a liability.
Read more05 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
agentic coding
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max ran autonomously for 16 days, producing 265 commits, 127 PRs, and 151 issues on a public GitHub repo. The tech lead question isn't whether AI can do this — it's whether you can trust it, verify it, and build a team process around it.
Read more04 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare's Agents Week (August 2026) redefined what AI agent infrastructure looks like at scale — introducing @cloudflare/computer as a new compute primitive, the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), and production patterns that separate agentic session management from traditional containerized workloads. Here's what it means for engineering teams building agent systems.
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