The Overlooked Reason Your RAG Pipeline Keeps Returning Garbage
I spend a lot of time in the AI space -- reading papers, building things, talking to engineers who are actually shipping. And there is a gap between…
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The Exact Stack I Use to Build Production AI Agents (No Fluff)
I spend a lot of time in the AI space -- reading papers, building things, talking to engineers who are actually shipping. And there is a gap between…
When the Spec Changes, the MCP Tool List Should Change With It
The first MCP server we stood up, someone on the team wrote out the tool list by hand. A JSON file with 22 entries, each describing one endpoint we…
When the Agent Reaches for Python in a TypeScript Repo, It Just Added a Third Language You Have to Maintain
Our main app is TypeScript. The build is Vite, the tests are Vitest, the CLI scripts are Node. Every engineer on the repo is comfortable in that sta…
AI agent rerouted an insurer's login code to itself
The login request on a major insurer's production site carried two fields that decided where your one-time passcode went: a delivery channel and an…
AI Agent Rollback: Why the Saga Pattern Fails for Tool Calls
Originally published on robatdasorvi.com Most of an AI agent's actions can't really be rolled back, and the saga pattern, now pitched as the fix for…
Sub-100ms Cargo & Food Safety Triage: Eliminating 72% of Routing LLM Calls in National Supply Chains
Sub-100ms Cargo & Food Safety Triage: Eliminating 72% of Routing LLM Calls in National Supply Chains Part 3 of the "Jev-First Routing for LangGr…
Manufacturing AI at Scale: Slashing Agent Latency and Cutting 74% of LLM Routing Calls in Industrial Safety Dispatch
Manufacturing AI at Scale: Slashing Agent Latency and Cutting 74% of LLM Routing Calls in Industrial Safety Dispatch Part 2 of the "Jev-First Routin…
The Agent Rewrote the Shell Script in Python and Dropped the Exit Code
The build script was 40 lines of bash. It ran npm test , then npm run build , then rsync the dist folder to a server, then paged us on Slack. It wor…
The Agent Deleted the Comment That Explained Why the Code Looks Weird
The function looked wrong. It returned an object with a key that started with a dollar sign, it did a network call inside a loop, and it mapped one…
The Agent Wrote a Test That Mocks the Function Under Test
The test file passed. The function it was supposed to cover was broken. The mock was the giveaway. CI went green. Coverage on the new module jumped…
The agent created a new file instead of editing the existing one. Now there are two.
The PR diff looks fine. You asked the agent to add a phone-number validator. It added a file called validation-helpers.ts with a clean, well-tested…
When the agent calls the failing test "pre-existing" and merges anyway
The PR comes in. CI is red. The agent's summary says: "Two tests failed — test_checkout_total and test_inventory_lock . Both were already failing on…
Why Agents Need a Knowledge Base: The Gaps an LLM Can't Fill by Itself
When a team starts building an agent, the first version is very often only a model, a system prompt and a few tools, and for a demo that is usually…
Which of your rule files the reviewer actually reads
Every AI review tool claims it reads your AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md. What decides whether your standards actually land is which rule wins when two appl…
Your agent added a sleep() to fix a flaky test. It didn't fix anything.
The CI log shows a timeout. You send the failure to your agent. Two minutes later, it opens a PR: await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 500)) befo…
Your agent treats every TODO like it's blocking. Mark which ones aren't.
You leave a comment in the middle of a refactor: // TODO: cache this call for the list endpoint You meant: come back to this when the list page actu…
Your agent keeps deprecated aliases alive forever. Make it pick a cutover date.
The refactor PR looks clean. getUserById becomes fetchUserById , the body moves to a new service file, and the tests pass. At the bottom of the diff…
Hypit: Free Open-Source AI Video Cloning for Agents
Hypit is a free, open-source system that gives AI agents like Claude Code and Codex a language and toolchain for video. Drop in any viral video and…
The artifact worth reviewing when agents write the code
GitHub's Security Lab reported 24 Android vulnerabilities found by an AI security agent, and the part worth copying is what ended up version-control…
Well-Architected Agent: architecture review becomes a weekly process
For years, the Well-Architected review was an event: a week-long workshop, a spreadsheet of high and medium risks, and then six months with nobody o…
Over-Mocking Is a Governance Problem, Not a Review Smell
Originally published at tddbuddy.com . Related reading: Agents Pattern-Match Your Test Smells named over-mocking as one of five smells; this post is…
When Your Agent Summarizes Your Codebase, It Quietly Drops the Types
You open a new agent session for a task that touches three existing modules. You point it at the repo and say "read the relevant files first." It re…
Building AI Agents with LangGraph: From Fundamentals to Production
Building AI Agents with LangGraph: From Fundamentals to Production A comprehensive guide to building reliable, stateful AI agents using LangGraph —…
30% More Code, Zero More Shipped Work: Where the Capacity Actually Went
A Harvard study of 718 firms found that coding agents produced 30% more lines of code and no detectable increase in finished work. Most coverage sto…
How to Add AI to Your Product by Fixing the Flows Users Already Struggle With
Most AI features get bolted on beside the product. The ones that stick fix a specific step where users already stall. Why the AI features that stick…
Riskified's Agent Identity Risk Intelligence Answers the Wrong Question First
On October 8, 2026, Riskified (NYSE: RSKD) launched Agent Identity Risk Intelligence — a system that identifies the AI personal assistant behind an…
MemTensor: When an AI Memory Plugin Becomes the Credential Collector
MemTensor: When an AI Memory Plugin Becomes the Credential Collector StepSecurity reported that the open-source AI memory framework MemTensor had it…
PCI SSC's AI Payments Guidance Is the Decision Gate, Officially
PCI SSC's AI Payments Guidance Is the Decision Gate, Officially In October 2026, the PCI Security Standards Council published additional guidance on…
Your Agent Keeps Asking the Same Question It Already Answered Last Session
You finish a long session with Claude Code. You made three real decisions: which auth flow to keep, why the cache key must include the tenant id, an…