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When Engineers Govern Agents Instead of Writing Code

For most of the past few years, AI assistance in software engineering meant one thing: a smarter autocomplete. The engineer stayed firmly in control, accepting or rejecting suggestions line by…

Giuseppe Basile October 8, 2026

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Closing the Loop: How Production Observability Makes AI Agents Better

For a long time, teams building AI agents measured quality the same way they measured conventional software — with tests that ran before deployment. Offline evals (structured tests run against…

Giuseppe Basile October 8, 2026

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Code Explanation with Claude

The frustration and need from consulting and enterprise products builders has been building for a while. We use AI coding assistants or harnesses, like Claude Code, and obtain something that…

Giuseppe Basile October 8, 2026

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From One-Shot Prompts to Software Factories: How Autonomous Coding Agents Are Changing the Work

The conversation around AI coding assistants has shifted. A year ago, most teams were still debating whether to use them at all. Today the question is more practical: how do…

Giuseppe Basile October 7, 2026

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The Benchmark That Actually Matters for AI Products

For a while, the cadence of AI product development tracked the cadence of model releases. A new version dropped, benchmarks climbed, and the question became: what does this unlock? That…

Giuseppe Basile October 6, 2026

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The Six Pillars of a Production-Ready Agentic Harness

For most of the past decade, the conversation around AI in software development has focused almost entirely on code generation — writing new functions, scaffolding boilerplate, translating ideas into working…

Giuseppe Basile October 6, 2026

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What a Raspberry Pi Agent Teaches About Architecture

For a while, the default assumption in AI agent development was that personal agents required either a powerful cloud subscription managed by someone else or a high-end local machine running…

Giuseppe Basile October 5, 2026

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Beyond Faster Code: How VS Code Rebuilt Its Entire Delivery System for AI

For most teams, shipping faster with AI turns out to be the easy part. The harder question — one that took the VS Code team years of iteration to answer…

Giuseppe Basile October 5, 2026

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The Gap Between 10% and 80%: What AI Support Agents Actually Require

For a long time, the working assumption in customer support automation was that getting 30 or 40 percent of tickets resolved without a human was a win worth celebrating. The…

Giuseppe Basile October 5, 2026

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YOLO Mode, Safely: Why MicroVM Sandboxes Are the Right Boundary for Coding Agents

For most of 2024 and early 2025, the conversation about agentic AI safety was dominated by prompt-level controls: system prompts telling the model not to do harmful things, guardrails checking…

Giuseppe Basile October 5, 2026

The AI Engineer’s Job Has Changed: Building the Loop, Not Just the Feature

The Engineer as Bottleneck: Why Autonomous Agent Loops Are the Next Frontier

The Shared Environment: The Quiet Architecture Shift Behind Multi-Agent Pipelines

The IDE Is Not the Factory: Building an AI Development Loop That Ships

ELITE Agentic Engineers Are LEAVING THE LOOP… Here’s why

When the Bottleneck Is Not the Code: AI War Rooms for Legacy Modernization

When the AI Toolkit Becomes the Attack Vector: Lessons from the LiteLLM Incident

Executive Briefing: 10 Hours Saved by AI Don’t Become 10 Useful Hours on Their Own

Benchmarks Don’t Run Your Code: A Hands-On Model Comparison Across Six Scenarios

The Communication Gap: The Skill That Actually Scales With AI Agents

A Bank Built Its Own Coding Agent. Here Is What Actually Made It Work.

The Flywheel That Keeps Remaking the Agent Harness

How an AI Agent Earns the Right to Work Unsupervised

AI Makes Us WAY Faster but Fries Our Focus (Here’s What I Do About It)

Your Mac Mini Has a Roommate Now — and It Needs More Than 16 GB

Let Your AI Agent Do ITS OWN Harness Engineering (Here’s How)

The Harness Matters More Than the Model

When One Agent Is Not Enough: The Case for Multi-Agent Architectures

What It Takes to Know If Your AI Agent Actually Works

When Uptime Metrics Miss the Point: Evaluating AI Agents in High-Stakes Contexts

When Engineers Govern Agents Instead of Writing Code

Closing the Loop: How Production Observability Makes AI Agents Better

Code Explanation with Claude

From One-Shot Prompts to Software Factories: How Autonomous Coding Agents Are Changing the Work

The Benchmark That Actually Matters for AI Products

The Six Pillars of a Production-Ready Agentic Harness

What a Raspberry Pi Agent Teaches About Architecture

Beyond Faster Code: How VS Code Rebuilt Its Entire Delivery System for AI

The Gap Between 10% and 80%: What AI Support Agents Actually Require

YOLO Mode, Safely: Why MicroVM Sandboxes Are the Right Boundary for Coding Agents