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Parvej Shah5d ago • 3 min read
Why We Stopped Using LLM Agents to Control LLM Agents (Deterministic Multi-Agent FSM)
Originally published at parvejshah.com/blog/deterministic-multi-agent-systems-production by Parvej.....
#ai#architecture#typescript#softwareengineering
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John5d ago • 9 min read
The Negative Control That Tested The Wrong Field
A round-trip loader's byte-comparison check turned green to red exactly on cue, but the mutation tha...
#debugging#software#softwareengineering#testing
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SomaAug 23, 2026 • 10 min read
ByteByteGo in 2026: Is It Still Worth It for System Design Interview Prep?
Is ByteByteGo really a good place to prepare for system design interviews
#systemdesign#programming#softwaredevelopment#softwareengineering
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Weio5d ago • 5 min read
We measured a week of inference. Routing by task difficulty cuts our cost per call roughly 48x — and flips which users are profitable.
We did the thing everyone building on LLMs does. We defaulted to a strong frontier model, because th...
#ai#llm#startup#softwareengineering
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John6d ago • 10 min read
The Check That Cannot Fire: Absolute Thresholds Silently Disable Your QC
A QC harness passed all 13 synthetic fixtures and broke on 5 of its first real inputs. Every root ca...
#codequality#debugging#softwareengineering#testing
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Meryeme ramdiAug 20, 2026 • 5 min read
The day I asked three LLM agents to rewrite legacy Java for me — and what actually happened
1. The question that started everything Three weeks into my internship, my supervisor sat...
#llm#javasaas#agents#softwareengineering
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Jessica DoeringAug 22, 2026 • 7 min read
The Hard Part of AI Coding Isn’t Using AI. It’s Knowing When Not to Trust It.
There are now enough AI coding tools to build an entire workflow out of assistants talking to...
#ai#coding#software#softwareengineering
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JohnAug 25, 2026 • 6 min read
The Upload Succeeded, the Record Did Not
A YouTube upload stage wrote its local "already uploaded" record only after verification succeeded, ...
#api#backend#debugging#softwareengineering
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Neeraj SinghiAug 22, 2026 • 5 min read
Interface Pollution and Package Boundaries in Go Microservices: Designing for Seam Clarity
How interface placement, method set design, and package topology determine testability, coupling, an...
#architecture#backend#go#softwareengineering
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yureki_labAug 21, 2026 • 7 min read
How I Deleted 26,000 Lines of Dead Code With Claude Code in One Sprint
TL;DR I pointed Claude Code at a 5-year-old TypeScript monorepo and deleted 26,412 lines...
#ai#claudecode#refactoring#softwareengineering
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yureki_labAug 20, 2026 • 8 min read
How I Backfilled 1,200 Tests Into a 5-Year-Old Codebase With Claude Code
TL;DR I inherited a 5-year-old TypeScript service with 6% test coverage and spent three...
#ai#claudecode#testing#softwareengineering
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Ali Suleyman TOPUZAug 21, 2026 • 16 min read
70+ System Design Terms for Beginners
A few months into my first backend role, I sat in on a design review where a senior engineer said “w...
#distributedsystems#backenddevelopment#systemsthinking#softwareengineering
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Oleh VeheriaAug 22, 2026 • 5 min read
AI Agent Workflows for Engineering Teams: What Actually Works
The first agent workflow I put in front of an engineering team optimized the wrong thing beautifully...
#ai#engineering#productivity#softwareengineering
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Srijan Verma6d ago • 2 min read
Taming Context Bloat: How to Scale AI Agent Memory Without Breaking the Token Bank
Stop dumping raw message arrays into LLMs and start using structured state with sliding windows. ...
#ai#backend#softwareengineering#systemdesign
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Elwin ErnstAug 23, 2026 • 5 min read
Harden for the reader: three red flags an AppSec engineer hits on `git clone`
There's a gap between software that works and software that survives being read by a security...
#cybersecurity#github#security#softwareengineering
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Jack SmithAug 20, 2026 • 4 min read
We Built Guardrails Against JSON Precision Loss. Then We Found Out Half of Them Weren't Actually Guarding Anything.
A few weeks ago I ran this through our own JSON repair tool, in the browser, on our own...
#backend#javascript#programming#softwareengineering
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jamilxtAug 24, 2026 • 8 min read
Codex vs Claude Code: The Differences That Only Show Up After a Week of Real Work
Benchmark scores will not help you choose between Codex and Claude Code anymore. On SWE-bench...
#ai#programming#devtools#softwareengineering
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Srijan VermaAug 21, 2026 • 3 min read
Stop Choosing Between RAG, Fine-Tuning, and Agents: Build the Hybrid Trio Instead
How to combine vector search, fine-tuned lightweight models, and targeted agent tooling into a resil...
#ai#backend#softwareengineering#systemdesign
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Derek Mwale6d ago • 18 min read
Building a Tamper-Evident Storage Engine
There is a difference between storing data and being able to prove that the data has not been...
#api#softwaredevelopment#softwareengineering#programming
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Dibyanshu kumarAug 24, 2026 • 6 min read
The loop your agent can't see
The $136 design document One ticket. Eleven design turns. $136 in model spend. Zero lines...
#ai#llm#softwareengineering#contextrot
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thomaslanghorstAug 22, 2026 • 7 min read
The Best Engineering Teams Use AI and Junior Developers Differently
Over the past year, I've watched a lot of engineering teams go through the same adoption pattern wit...
#ai#softwareengineering#programming#career
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Bhargav Patel5d ago • 5 min read
From SOLID to Composition, Dependency Injection, and IoC: How Angular, Spring, and Node.js Differ
When learning Angular, Spring, and Node.js, I often came across terms like SOLID, Dependency...
#architecture#backend#node#softwareengineering
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Naman Vashistha6d ago • 1 min read
Feedback Loops: How Teams Get Better
A team can have good people, good processes, and clear goals - and still move slowly. One reason ca...
#management#productivity#softwareengineering
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Hideki MoriAug 24, 2026 • 4 min read
The work of staying
There is a system I wrote years ago that is still running. I'd struggle to tell you what was hard...
#softwareengineering#career#devjournal
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