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From Code Generator to Production System: Why AI Agents Require Rigorous Engineering, Observability, and State Management
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The initial euphoria surrounding Large Language Models (LLMs) was largely driven by their ability to generate code…
JWT Validation: Verifying Tokens for Authentication and Authorization
JWT Validation: Verifying Tokens for Authentication and Authorization A practical guide to JWT validation — the process of checking a JSON Web Token's…
Why Your AI Agents Need Finite State Machines: Building Deterministic Workflows in a Vibe-Coding World
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The rise of "vibe coding" has democratized software development, allowing developers to build complex applications…
Different Types of Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks & Their Mitigations
Disclaimer: This article is intended for educational purposes related to cybersecurity, defensive security, and authorized security testing only. DoS/…
Building a Secure Local AI Agent on Open-Source Infrastructure: Lessons from SGLang, Olares, and Real-World Audits
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The promise of Local AI is data sovereignty. By running Large Language Models (LLMs) entirely on-premise, organiza…
Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu
Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu When most people think about learning software engineering, they picture classrooms…
From Burnout to Balance: Building an AI Overtraining Detector with HRV and Isolation Forest
Are you a data nerd who loves fitness? If you wear an Oura Ring or an Apple Watch , you’re sitting on a goldmine of biometric data. Specifically, Hear…
Common Mistakes Beginner Software Engineers Make (And How to Avoid Them)
Starting a career in software engineering is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. With countless programming languages, frameworks, tools, and b…
The Most Enduring Skills of a Software Engineer
Understanding software architecture, adaptability, risk assessment, and writing readable code. There is a harmful myth that a developer’s job is solel…
From Black Box to Audit Trail: Why 'Unlimited Context' is Technical Debt and How to Secure Your AI Agents
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The prevailing architectural pattern for modern AI agents—feeding the entire conversation history and all availabl…
I Had Zero Programming Experience. Two Months Later, I Built My First Real-World Solution.
Two months ago, I couldn't explain what a variable was. Today, I'm writing backend code in Go, working with APIs and databases, using Git, Docker, and…
From Rust Fuzzing to AI Agents: Building Secure, Memory-Aware Software in the Age of Autonomous Development
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The landscape of software development is undergoing a tectonic shift. For decades, memory safety and security have…
Optimizing LLM Context Windows: Implementing Lossless Compression Strategies for RAG Agents
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The context window is the single most expensive bottleneck in modern Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architec…
Managing Monorepos at Scale: Lessons from Meta, AWS, and a 15-Repo Migration
Early in my career, I thought polyrepos were the way. Microservices, each in their own repo, independently deployable — it felt clean and modern. Then…
ChronoWeave: The Documentary
From Framework User to Framework Understander — A 4-Month Journey Through Gradient Descent, Transformers, and the Physics of History "Every timeline y…
The Moment the Server Room Goes Dark
The usual warning about AI starts like this: the moment the lights go out in the server room, every step we leaped forward with AI snaps back to where…
Stop Saying "Just Use Redis": A Key-Value Store Cheat Sheet for System Design Interviews
We’ve all been there. You sketch out a flawless high-level architecture on the whiteboard, and the interviewer leans in: “ Alright, what database are …
🐈⬛Check Out Catbot's New Leg!
This is fun. I absolutely must share. So I recently created a desktop pet, called Catbot. Catbot is voice activated and has memory in an obsidian vaul…
Debugging a Broken Ingress Setup: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
This post documents a real debugging session that started with a simple symptom — example.com wouldn't load — and ended up uncovering several separate…
The World's Oldest Communication Protocol Is Music
This is going to be a very different article from what I usually write. No technical discussions, architecture deep dives, or engineering practices to…
AMD Advancing AI 2026: Software, Hardware & Framework, Unified
Where Chris Lattner calls AI "mid" and George Hotz wants to knock a trillion dollars of value off of NVIDIA with tinygrad. Preamble IMHO: AMD's Advanc…
Database Migrations: Managing Schema Changes as Version-Controlled Code
Database Migrations: Managing Schema Changes as Version-Controlled Code A practical guide to database migrations — the discipline of evolving a databa…
Do It Wrong First
Somewhere in your organization there is a slide that says do it right the first time to save costs. I have sat in the room where that slide goes up. I…
Cybersecurity Beginner's Dilemma: Navigating Specialized Areas and Next Steps for Focused Learning
Introduction: Strategic Entry into Cybersecurity The cybersecurity domain operates as a dynamically evolving ecosystem, characterized by the rapid eme…
From machining to machine learning: an unconventional path into software
I was fifteen when I first stood in front of a CNC machine at Senai. Not a keyboard. Not a screen. A machine that cut metal down to the tenth of a mil…
Architecture starts paying rent when a user workflow reaches it
My TypeScript Candidate Tracker passed 100 tests before it had a page I could actually use. The repository contracts, Result types, validation service…
Can a Non-Coder Become a Coder Just With AI?
My company decided to lean into AI — to let people who had never written code build real software with it. I thought that was the right call, and I st…
# Golang Beginner Mistakes #4: Learning Interfaces Changed How I Write Go
For the longest time, I avoided interfaces. Not because I thought they were useless. But because every explanation I came across felt like a computer …
Brain Science: Friday, July 17
Brain Science Friday: What Neuroscience Actually Says About How You Should Be Studying Right Now Here's a fact that should change everything about how…