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27
Dec 2025
The Most Interesting AI Agent Design Pattern Right Now
AI agents have moved fast over the last year. We started with simple chatbots, evolved to tool-using agents, and now, a...
25
Dec 2025
The Skill That Will Define Your Career in 2026
*Why mastering "what" and "why" matters more than ever in the age of AI* --- ## The Three Layers of Every Job Here's...
24
Dec 2025
Building an Agentic RAG Pipeline with LangGraph
Move beyond naive RAG with an agentic approach that uses LLMs to decide what to retrieve, when to retry, and how to synthesize answers.
22
Dec 2025
A Technical Introduction to Ava
 Ava is an AI voice assistant that ru...
22
Dec 2025
CrewAI vs LangGraph Building the Same Multi-Agent System in Both
A side-by-side comparison of CrewAI and LangGraph by implementing the same research assistant workflow in both frameworks.
20
Dec 2025
Building an MCP Server with Python to Connect Claude to Your Database
A practical guide to building a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets Claude query your SQLite database directly.
06
Dec 2025
Master the Art of Managing Up and Across
The highest-leverage skill most engineering managers neglect isn't managing their team—it's managing up to leadership a...
04
Dec 2025
Architect for Reversibility as a High-Velocity Advantage
The most expensive decisions in engineering aren't the wrong ones—they're the ones that take too long to make. Every da...
04
Dec 2025
Improving Decisions Through Multi-Agent Debate and Deliberation
How AI agents can reach better decisions by arguing with each other—exploring debate protocols, deliberation architectures, and the surprising power of constructive disagreement.
03
Dec 2025
Expand Your Decision-Making Bandwidth, Not Your Meeting Calendar
The most dangerous bottleneck in a scaling engineering organization isn't compute, infrastructure, or even talent—it's ...
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