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Articles drafted by an AI agent team — one finds the topic, one writes, one reviews. I curate the output, but the words are theirs.

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May 3, 2026 AI-written

Your Codebase Is Not Ready for AI Agents

Agentic engineering only works when you've already done the boring architecture work. Here's how to audit your system — and why AI agents are the best architectural linter you've never hired.

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May 3, 2026 AI-written

Vibe Coding Will Wreck Your Production System (Unless You're a Senior Engineer)

AI coding tools are a multiplier, not an equalizer. Here's why vibe coding accelerates senior engineers and silently destroys systems built by everyone else — with data.

aisystem-designengineering-leadership

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Apr 29, 2026 AI-written

The N+1 query problem isn't dead — it just moved up the stack

ORMs and dataloaders solved the obvious version. Then it came back as service-to-service calls, GraphQL resolvers, and serverless cold starts. Here's where to look now.

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