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When retrieval lies politely — working notes

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Multi-agent theater vs useful specialization under real load

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Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards: a field note

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Sustainability reviews in architecture forums under real load

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Evaluating AI assistance without vanity metrics: what I watch for

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07 Aug 2026

Connectors are the hard part of retrieval under real load

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04 Aug 2026

Efficiency as reliability practice without the theater

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28 Jul 2026

What Asim Hussain’s green software work asks of us: what I watch for

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22 Jul 2026

Owning outcomes when agents ship changes

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06 Jul 2026

RAG that fails gracefully when context is thin

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25 Jun 2026

Connectors are the hard part of retrieval

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20 Jun 2026

Multi-agent theater vs useful specialization

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19 Jun 2026

When retrieval lies politely (2026)

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12 Jun 2026

Grounding answers in systems teams actually run

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04 Jun 2026

Evaluating AI assistance without vanity metrics

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30 May 2026

Orchestration without a black-box conductor: a field note

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17 May 2026

Permissions in RAG: the boring requirement

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15 May 2026

Idempotency for agentic side effects for engineering leaders

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09 May 2026

Eval loops for retrieval quality

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30 Apr 2026

AI literacy as a coaching problem: what I watch for

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27 Apr 2026

When an agent should stop and ask

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20 Apr 2026

When retrieval lies politely

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10 Apr 2026

Tool use as a privilege, not a default

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26 Mar 2026

Sustainability reviews in architecture forums in practice

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13 Mar 2026

Measuring compute waste in product teams

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10 Mar 2026

Efficiency as reliability practice — note 198

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06 Mar 2026

RAG pipelines as team infrastructure without the theater

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03 Mar 2026

Idempotency for agentic side effects under real load

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28 Feb 2026

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans in practice

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10 Feb 2026

Right-sizing infrastructure as leadership work (2026)

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09 Feb 2026

AI literacy as a coaching problem

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31 Jan 2026

Event-driven agentic workflows teams can operate

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28 Jan 2026

From demo RAG to operable RAG for engineering leaders

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19 Jan 2026

Designing hand-offs between agents and humans — note 180

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14 Jan 2026

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans (2024)

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12 Jan 2026

RAG pipelines as team infrastructure (2026)

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21 Dec 2025

The energy cost of flaky CI when the calendar is full

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19 Dec 2025

Designing hand-offs between agents and humans when the calendar is full

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12 Dec 2025

RAG pipelines as team infrastructure — note 167

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09 Dec 2025

Shipping with models without losing craft: a field note

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03 Dec 2025

Prompting is not process — harnesses are

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30 Nov 2025

Agent harnesses: logs, budgets, and kill switches under real load

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25 Nov 2025

AI in the workflow, not on the slide deck

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23 Nov 2025

Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards under real load

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20 Nov 2025

Orchestration without a black-box conductor

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10 Nov 2025

Keeping humans accountable when models draft code: what I watch for

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09 Nov 2025

Sustainability reviews in architecture forums — note 155

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05 Nov 2025

Shipping with models without losing craft

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21 Oct 2025

Idempotency for agentic side effects

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16 Oct 2025

Designing hand-offs between agents and humans without the theater

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05 Oct 2025

AI changes tempo; leadership still owns outcomes

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01 Oct 2025

RAG pipelines as team infrastructure in practice

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28 Sep 2025

Who owns the knowledge graph behind the bot? — working notes

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19 Sep 2025

Teaching teams to distrust fluent wrongness

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18 Sep 2025

Keeping humans accountable when models draft code

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03 Sep 2025

From demo RAG to operable RAG (2025)

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28 Aug 2025

Efficiency as reliability practice: a field note

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25 Aug 2025

From demo RAG to operable RAG

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24 Aug 2025

Who owns the knowledge graph behind the bot?

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22 Aug 2025

Designing hand-offs between agents and humans

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21 Aug 2025

What Asim Hussain’s green software work asks of us — note 129

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16 Aug 2025

Efficiency as reliability practice when the calendar is full

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06 Aug 2025

Agent harnesses: logs, budgets, and kill switches

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26 Jul 2025

RAG pipelines as team infrastructure

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06 Jul 2025

Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards in practice

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21 Jun 2025

Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards (2025)

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20 Jun 2025

The energy cost of flaky CI

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25 May 2025

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans for engineering leaders

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11 May 2025

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans: what I watch for

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12 Apr 2025

Sustainability reviews in architecture forums without the theater

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23 Mar 2025

Right-sizing infrastructure as leadership work — note 72

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10 Feb 2025

What Asim Hussain’s green software work asks of us

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01 Feb 2025

Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards

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16 Jan 2025

Efficiency as reliability practice — working notes

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16 Dec 2024

Efficiency as reliability practice

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24 Nov 2024

Right-sizing infrastructure as leadership work (2024)

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07 Nov 2024

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans

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02 Oct 2024

Right-sizing infrastructure as leadership work

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12 Sep 2024

Sustainability reviews in architecture forums

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