Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Agents Are Coming. Most Demos Are Lying.
A skeptical look at agent reliability in late 2024, where the impressive demos quietly fall apart in production, and the narrow places agents already pull their weight.
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Post-Merger Tech Integration: Ten Systems, Nine Months, Zero Downtime
Two large platforms merged, and now we owned two of everything. How we collapsed the overlap into one stack without a single customer feeling it, and why the politics were harder than the code.
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Getting JSON Out of LLMs Without Crying
Function calling and JSON mode get you syntactically valid JSON. They do nothing about a model that fills the right shape with confident nonsense. The validation-and-repair layer you still have to write.
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Negotiating a Nine-Figure Cloud Deal: What Engineers Should Know
A multi-year hyperscaler commitment is an architecture decision wearing a procurement costume, and engineers who skip the room get the bill.