Quality Isn't Accidental — Maker/Checker Separation and Automated Validation
The Core Argument : AI agent reliability isn't achieved by "making the agent smarter" — it's achieved by the simple engineering principle of separatin…
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How Much Memory Does Your Agent Need? — A Practical Memory Store Selection Guide
The Pain : You search GitHub and find everyone using different memory stores — ChromaDB, PostgreSQL, plain Markdown files, "SQLite is good enough for …
Why Your AI Agent Forgets Everything Overnight — From Prompt to Loop Engineering
The Pain : You spent an afternoon tuning your agent. Next morning, it stares at you blankly — as if yesterday never happened. What You'll Learn : The …
Built, not assembled
Most cloud platforms are not platforms. They are holding companies. A database startup gets acquired. A serverless product gets bolted on. An AI infer…
The AI Code Review Policy Template for Engineering Teams
Most engineering teams that ship AI-assisted code have an informal process — "we review it like any other PR" — and no written policy. That gap matter…
10 AI Prompts I Use as an Engineering Manager (1:1s, Postmortems, Performance Reviews)
10 AI Prompts I Use as an Engineering Manager I've managed engineering teams for long enough to know the pattern: half of the job is technical decisio…
My Checklist for Reviewing AI-Generated Code
The agent handed me a function that fetched a Stripe customer, read customer.tax_ids.data[0].value , and used it as the VAT number for an invoice. Cle…
How to Actually Evaluate an AI Engineer in 2026 (7-Point Framework)
The signals that mattered when you hired ML engineers in 2022 barely predict who ships reliable AI systems in 2026. "Trained a model on Kaggle" and "k…
Building a Culture of Reliability: Beyond the SRE Handbook
You Can't Hire Your Way to Reliability I've seen companies hire 5 SREs and expect reliability to magically improve. It doesn't. Reliability is a cultu…
Biot Number: How to Know When a Cooling Object Has a Single Temperature
Pull a hot steel bolt out of a furnace and quench it in oil, and a fair question is: does the bolt cool from the outside in, with a sharp temperature …
Supabase vs Firebase
Both Supabase and Firebase promise the same thing: a backend you don't have to build, with auth, a database, storage, and real-time out of the box. Th…
Monorepo vs polyrepo
How you split your code into repositories seems like a plumbing decision, but it quietly shapes how your team collaborates, ships, and reasons about t…
Microservices vs monolith
Microservices have a marketing problem: they're associated with the engineering cultures of Netflix and Amazon, so ambitious teams assume adopting the…
On building systems that survive team turnover
I have taken over codebases and had codebases taken from me. The experience in both directions has converged on one principle: a durable system commun…
Software Development Changed. Good Engineering Didn’t.
Over the last 10 years, software development has changed dramatically. Products are built faster, teams use more cloud services, data has become centr…
Every Requirement Gets a Verdict. I Had Been Reviewing Without One.
You merge the PR. The build passes. The code does what you expected it to do. You move on. That is review for most engineers. A final read. A feeling …
Sprint 7 closed: Engineering Agents
Sprint 7 is closed . The goal was specialized engineering agents — architecture, code review, documentation, debugging, and onboarding — built on skil…
I Built an AI Pipeline for 10,000 Daily Listings. Here's What Broke at Scale.
I watched a pipeline I spent weeks building get shut down in one meeting. The AI rewrite engine for a job platform's listing descriptions was working.…
The 3C Protocol: Paying Down the Debt You Didn't Know You Were Taking On
✓ Human-authored analysis; AI used for formatting and proofreading. The examples use Stave as the concrete case. But the protocol applies to any syste…
KV Cache Is Eating Your VRAM — Here's How to Estimate It Before You Run Out
Every LLM inference engineer hits this wall eventually. You deployed a model, it works in testing, then production traffic arrives. Suddenly your 80GB…
Building a Multi-Mode Valve Test Rig: Software Architecture for Hydraulic and Pneumatic Test Programmes
A general-purpose valve test rig serving multiple valve types needs a test programme abstraction layer that separates the test logic from the specific…
The 80/20 Rule of AI Code: Why Production Takes 80% of Your Time
I watched a GPT-4 function call that worked perfectly in the playground silently fail in production. The output was valid JSON. The structure was corr…
PLC-Based Cyclic Pressure Test Sequencing: Profile Design and Fatigue Data Analysis
Designing a cyclic pressure test programme requires more than just "pressurise and depressurise repeatedly." Ramp rate, hold time, and cycle count int…
Escaping Generative Monoculture in AI-Assisted Engineering
Originally published on Mohamad Alsabbagh's Blog . AI coding assistants are excellent at compressing known work into fast drafts. That speed is the pr…
Integrating LLM with Other Machine Learning Models
We are building a support ticket intelligence pipeline that classifies incoming requests and drafts contextual replies by combining Oxlo.ai embeddings…
Review is the Symptom. Specification is the Fix.
Addy Osmani published Agentic Code Review the most data-rich, most honest assessment of the AI code-review crisis to date. The Faros numbers alone are…
Loop Engineering: The Next Step After Prompt Engineering for AI Agents
Loop Engineering: The Next Step After Prompt Engineering for AI Agents The AI development landscape has undergone a fundamental shift. For years, prom…
Why Your AI Engineer Hire Costs 56% More Than You Budgeted
The Budget You Approved Isn't the Budget You'll Pay You approved $180K for a senior AI engineer. Eighteen months later, you've spent $282K and you're …
The Author Doesn't Have to Be an Engineer: How the Harness Holds Quality (Series Part 5)
Hi, I'm Ryan , CTO at airCloset. Disclaimer : "cortex" in this article is the internal codename for an AI platform built in-house at airCloset. It is …
The Last Capacity Planning Sheet You'll Ever Need
Originally published at theendofcoding.com . It's the last week of the quarter. The team is going to miss two of the five committed epics — they alrea…