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Why Your AI Vendor Is Incentivized to Keep You Dependent
Every AI platform vendor will tell you they want to be your partner. What they mean is they want to be your only partner. This is not conspiracy. It …
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Building AI Agents That Actually Work in Production
Every week, someone publishes a demo of an AI agent that browses the web, writes code, manages a calendar, and books flights. The demo takes four …
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The Death of the Feature Factory: How AI-Native Teams Ship Outcomes Not Tickets
There is a pattern in software organizations so common it has earned its own name: the feature factory. You know the symptoms. Backlogs measured in …
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Why We Open Source Our Best Work
We published PlanOpticon, our meeting video analysis platform, as open source on PyPI and GitHub. Not a stripped-down version. Not a feature-limited …
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From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: A Maturity Model
We wrote previously about the market correction happening as organizations move past the initial excitement of AI-assisted development. The honeymoon …
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RAG Is Not a Product — It Is a Pattern and Here Is How to Get It Right
Retrieval-Augmented Generation has become one of the most misused terms in AI. Vendors sell “RAG solutions.” Startups pitch “RAG …
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Outcome Engineering: The Discipline That Replaces Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has become the most expensive phrase in enterprise technology. Billions of dollars flow into initiatives labeled “digital …
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The Real Cost of AI: What Nobody Tells You Before You Start
The pitch is always clean. “Integrate AI and save 40 percent on operational costs.” The pricing page shows tokens per dollar. The demo …
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Platform Engineering Is Not DevOps 2.0
The tech industry has a habit of rebranding movements once they stall. Agile became a certification industry. DevOps became a job title. And now, …
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AI-Native vs. AI-Augmented: Why the Distinction Matters for Every Engineering Leader
There is a question that separates engineering organizations heading toward real AI leverage from those about to spend eighteen months and seven …
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Lessons From 13 Years of Building Software Nobody Thought Was Possible
CONFLICT started in 2012. The iPhone 5 was new. Docker did not exist. AWS had about a tenth of the services it has today. The idea that software could …
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Innovation dies behind bad terminals and worse VPNs.
Written by Leo M. Sometimes your developers need to work right next to the data. Same VPC, same subnet, same heartbeat as production. Sounds real …
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