Why basic RAG fails at multi-hop reasoning (and how GraphRAG fixes it)
The current approach to designing LLMs within AI engineering is oversimplified. According to the echo chamber’s view, solving LLM hallucinatio…
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When AI agent traces become application data
Say a test starts failing and a developer hands it to a coding agent. It digs into the relevant files, The post When AI agent traces become applicat…
Tokenmaxxing is out. How to minimize AI spend without sacrificing security capability.
Security teams are discovering that the most capable AI models cost too much to run on routine, high-volume work, and The post Tokenmaxxing is out.…
CLI or IDE? Build in verification first
The argument over where AI coding agents belong,  in an integrated development environment (IDE) or at the command line interface The post CLI…
Why real-time AI at scale is so hard
Real-time AI at scale is harder than it looks. Pipelines that hum along in development routinely hit problems in production. The post Why real-time…
One pull to wipe them all
Q Developer is a free extension that lets a coding agent read a project, propose changes, and run commands on The post One pull to wipe them all app…
The open mainframe: the keystone of the end-to-end digital enterprise
In the first article in this series, I discussed how the Open Mainframe Project (OMP) and its open-source framework, Zowe, The post The open mainfra…
Securing sandboxes: What happens when AI agents escape containment?
On July 16, the team at Hugging Face noticed something weird moving through their production systems: An intruder that was The post Securing sandbox…
Six identity capabilities for securing autonomous AI agents
The artificial intelligence landscape has reached a pivotal inflection point. Over the past several years, the paradigm has shifted from The post Si…
Stop the token bleed: building token-efficient multi-agent systems
Every engineering team deploying AI agents eventually discovers an uncomfortable truth: the model isn’t the biggest expense. The hidden cost T…
AI broke code review. What about knowledge sharing?
The volume of AI-generated code has broken code review. Engineers are reviewing 500-line diffs they didn’t write, generated by models The post…
Per-developer environments were the goal. Agents moved the goalposts.
Multi-tenancy has moved in one direction for 60 years: the tenant keeps getting smaller. Mainframe time-sharing carved a single machine The post Per…
Your container images are unsigned. In the AI era, that’s a ticking time bomb.
Most organizations that know they should sign their images still don’t. Not because they disagree, but because the path to The post Your conta…
Why your AI pipeline costs 10x more after the demo
Every token has a price. The problem is that most AI systems don’t reveal the bill until they reach production. The post Why your AI pipeline costs…
Code review is a taste problem
Code review is becoming the most important decision-making surface in software engineering, and it’s outgrowing the diff. The assumption was T…
Pulling multi-gigabyte container images in seconds on Amazon EKS
When the image is the bottleneck: Machine learning changed what a container image looks like. A typical application ships in The post Pulling multi-…
Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform
What it actually costs to build your own internal developer platform over five years, and why most “we’ll just build The post Platform Engineering R…
Coding agents can be evaluated. We just have to evaluate the work.
I recently argued with a software factory provider, whose position was that coding agents cannot be evaluated. Their reasoning was The post Coding a…
AI adoption isn’t the same as AI usage
Every engineering org I’ve talked to this year has some version of the same chart. Seat activations climbing. Token spend The post AI adoption…
Why your KubeVirt VMs can’t move between clusters — and how EVPN fixes it
Your team has moved VMs to Kubernetes with KubeVirt. The workloads are running. The team is gaining confidence. Then someone The post Why your KubeV…
The “AI kill switch” assumes you know what you are trying to shut down
“AI kill switch” entered the public conversation because it gives people a simple way to talk about a complex fear.  The post The “…
Say goodbye to K8s GPU pain: How DRA changes everything
Consider a platform team managing a shared GPU cluster with a mix of B200s, H100s, and recently added B300s. Every The post Say goodbye to K8s GPU p…
Anthropic recommends a git worktree per agent. Your runtime infra makes that a problem.
A developer supervising four coding agents has four changes in flight at once, each in its own git worktree. That The post Anthropic recommends a gi…
Every software company will become a dev tools company
If most software will soon be built by machines, the job of software engineers will change: from writing software to The post Every software company…
Claude, Gemini, and GPT-5 can handle every SDLC task. Almost none of them should.
For the past two years, most of the conversations about AI and software development have centered on security: How do The post Claude, Gemini, and G…
Kubernetes upgrades don’t have to break things: How EKS is making cluster lifecycle management simpler and safer
Kubernetes moves at a pace of three minor version releases per year, and staying current is not optional if you The post Kubernetes upgrades don’t h…
Designing APIs for agents
In early 2025, Webflow started building for MCP before there was a clear playbook for agent-ready APIs. We publicly announced The post Designing API…
Why linting alone can’t govern agentic development
There’s no question that AI agents are changing software development. They can move from an idea to a working implementation The post Why lint…
When do AI agents need permission boundaries?
An AI agent feels harmless when it only produces text, but the risk profile changes the moment it calls a The post When do AI agents need permission…
Turning 10x developers into 10x value
When I sit down with leaders and ask why they’re investing in AI, the answer almost always comes back to The post Turning 10x developers into…