IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
8 articles
22 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
agentic coding
Rachel Laycock's framing from martinfowler.com reduces the whole agentic-software governance problem to one sentence: organisations don't run on code, they run on trust. Here's how to turn that into five concrete guardrails, and why my own overnight-task workflow is a working example of the pattern.
Read more17 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Stripe's reported $7B+ acquisition of OpenRouter — up from a $1.3B valuation three months ago — validates the model-gateway architecture. A Technical Lead's take on when to buy a gateway, when to build one, and what this deal signals for API-routing infrastructure.
Read more15 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
DoorDash's Flux platform runs 130,000 agent tasks a month with 25,000+ automated code reviews a week, all inside Firecracker microVM sandboxes. A technical lead's breakdown of the architecture pattern behind it.
Read more07 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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 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.
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 more20 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
agentic-ai
Google's ARD specification (v0.9, 2026) defines how AI agents discover tools at runtime via ai-catalog.json. A Tech Lead's practical guide: what it means, how it compares to MCP, and how to make your platform agent-discoverable today.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Part 10 of 12 — How AI transforms the DevOps/Platform Engineer role: AI-assisted pipeline generation, incident diagnosis, capacity planning, GitOps automation, and the operational judgment that keeps systems running and teams unblocked.
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