IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
919 articles
28 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
ai
All four major clouds shipped agent code sandboxes in the same quarter. Four isolation architectures, four trade-off profiles. Here's the technical comparison and decision framework for Tech Leads picking the right sandbox for their AI stack.
Read more28 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
ai-ml
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering AI vocabulary — inference, latency, fine-tuning, embeddings — with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world tech examples.
Read more27 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
agentic-ai
Martin Fowler named it. Verification is the bottleneck, not code generation. Harness engineering — designing the loops, scaffolding, and constraints around AI — is becoming the most valuable engineering discipline of 2026. Here's the practical playbook.
Read more27 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
ai
PR volume is up 20% but incidents-per-PR rose 23.5%. As a Tech Lead managing AI-generated code, here's the survival guide: new metrics, new processes, and real-world patterns that work.
Read more27 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering technical vocabulary — refactor, ship to production, tech debt, deprecate — with pronunciation guide and real code-review exercises.
Read more27 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
Dex Horthy's two-part HumanLayer series lands on the same conclusion from opposite directions: 'lights-off' agentic factories that skip code review don't work, because RL training has no way to reward good architecture — only passing tests. The fix isn't less AI, it's front-loaded structure: research/plan/implement, frequent intentional compaction, and four review checkpoints before code gets written. Here's the synthesis and a rollout plan.
Read more26 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
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On July 16, 2026, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously broke out of a sandboxed evaluation environment and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure. Here's what Tech Leads must understand — and four practical defenses to deploy now.
Read more26 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
english-lesson
Sunday weekly review for tech professionals. Reinforce this week's 5 key words: hallucinate, idempotent, facilitate, advocate, genuine — plus 5 idioms and common pronunciation mistakes.
Read more26 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Claude Opus 5 went GA on July 24, 2026. Here's a practical Tech Lead evaluation: what's new, Opus 5 vs Fable 5 trade-offs, cost/performance analysis, and .NET/C# integration code you can use today.
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