IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
919 articles
06 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 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 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
build-tools
TypeScript 7.0 ships a native Go compiler that delivers 8-12x build performance improvements. The benchmark numbers are real, but the deeper story is what this enables: faster CI/CD pipelines, more responsive local dev loops, and a changed calculation for monorepo architecture. Here's the engineering breakdown of what changed, what stays the same, and what your team should actually do.
Read more04 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
ai-governance
On August 2, 2026, the European AI Office gained formal investigative and enforcement powers. Article 50 transparency obligations are live today — chatbots must disclose they're AI, deepfakes need machine-readable marks. High-risk AI obligations follow in 2027-2028. Here's the layered engineering checklist for what your team must do now versus what you have time to plan.
Read more04 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
ai-ml
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering hallucinate, inference, token budget, grounding, and RAG — the words you need to talk about LLMs confidently at work, in meetings, and in writing.
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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