Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim
The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. Often we talk about certain habits, in programming or life, are good or bad. But few things are simple binaries. Some vary with context: reading a book is a good…
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An Accidental Blackboard
Giles Edwards-Alexander reports that during an experiment to see how productive a team could be using fully agentic engineering practices, the team accidentally prompted the agents into creating a blackboard…
Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
TL;DR Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems I was on a panel recently with Brian Houck from DX at Code Remix, hosted by…
An Organizational Second Brain: Building an AI That Learns From Experts
We’ve built an AI agent that acts as a secondary expert for a given domain, making deep specialist knowledge readily available and preserved for anyone in an organization to access, share, and build upon. This is not a…
Why Your RAG System Is Only as Good as Its Translator Model
In this article, we’re going to look at how this embedding model works in an RAG setup and what makes it such a critical part of the system.
Swiggy Uses 350+ Features and Multi-Task MLP to Predict Customer Lifetime Value
Swiggy developed an in house predicted lifetime value model using more than 350 pre order features and a multi task MLP for Food and Instamart. Adding order count as an auxiliary task reduced model parameters by 63%…
OpenAI Details GPT-Live’s Architecture for Continuous Stateful Voice Interaction
OpenAI recently published an engineering account of GPT-Live. It described how they designed the system to maintain continuous voice interaction while separating latency-sensitive media processing from broader…
Presentation: Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering for Production-Grade AI
Ricardo Ferreira discusses moving beyond simple prompt engineering to build production-grade AI applications. He shares practical architectural strategies for integrating long-term and short-term memory using Redis,…
Cloudflare Adds Optional OAuth Scopes, Letting Developers Mark What Users May Decline
Cloudflare has added optional OAuth scopes, letting client owners mark which permissions users may deselect at consent. The company names MCP servers as the motivating case, since agents request the union of everything…