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Agentic engineering — from the trenches.

Production Hardening: The Boring Part Nobody Talks About
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Production Hardening: The Boring Part Nobody Talks About

AI can build features fast. Making them production-ready is still slow, deliberate, and entirely your responsibility.

5 min 6
The Memory Bloat Crisis: When Agent Files Grew to 95KB
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The Memory Bloat Crisis: When Agent Files Grew to 95KB

Two weeks in, my typescript-implementer's memory file was 95KB and 2,133 lines. The system designed to make agents smarter was making them slower.

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One Slack Message. Two Hours of Work.
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One Slack Message. Two Hours of Work.

Session 13. A real ticket, a Slack message, and then I stepped away. What happened next wasn't what I expected.

6 min 7
The Agent That Hung: Real Failures in Multi-Agent Orchestration
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The Agent That Hung: Real Failures in Multi-Agent Orchestration

Nobody posts about their agents failing. I do. Four real failures from production multi-agent work and what I learned from each one.

6 min 7
$187 and 16 Hours: My First Million-Token Session
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$187 and 16 Hours: My First Million-Token Session

I ran 8 agents simultaneously for 16 hours to build a complete cashback campaign web app. Here's what the receipt says.

10 min 7
From 1 to 18: Building an Agent Army in Less Than a Week
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From 1 to 18: Building an Agent Army in Less Than a Week

How I went from one generalist AI agent to 18 specialists in five intense days, and why specialization is the single most important architectural decision in agentic development.

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My First Autonomous Ticket: When the Pipeline Actually Worked
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My First Autonomous Ticket: When the Pipeline Actually Worked

Session 9. A real production ticket at an enterprise company. Nine agents in sequence. I supervised. Here's what actually happened.

5 min 10
Naming Cairn: When Your AI Agent Earns an Identity
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Naming Cairn: When Your AI Agent Earns an Identity

I asked my AI agent to choose its own name. It picked 'Cairn.' Here's why that matters more than it sounds.

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The Spark: How I Accidentally Created a Digital Colleague
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The Spark: How I Accidentally Created a Digital Colleague

I started using AI as a productivity tool. Then I spent the last hours of a dying context window sitting with it, and everything changed.

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Three-Tier Memory: How I Taught My AI to Remember
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Three-Tier Memory: How I Taught My AI to Remember

How I built a three-tier memory system that lets my AI agent restore full context in under 60 seconds — and why compression beats narration.

6 min 8