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    Unsupervised · 7 min Producing the work can be handed to a machine. Answering for it cannot. What an organization values when machines do most of the making, what people are for, and four things to try this week. opinion ai strategy Build the System the Model Cannot Break Canon post — · 12 min A manifesto for building AI-native organizations. Twelve tenets across strategy, architecture, economics, and people — and the only test that matters in year two. opinion ai strategy Stop Fine-Tuning Models You Haven't Bothered to Prompt Properly · 4 min Fine-tuning is the goto move for teams who skipped the basics. Most of the time, better prompts and proper retrieval solve the actual problem. llm ai opinion Most AI Developer Tools Are Not Worth Adopting Yet · 3 min The AI tooling landscape is exploding. Most of it adds complexity without removing real friction. Here is how I decide what earns a spot in the stack. ai developer-experience opinion LangChain Is the New ORM: Convenient Until It Is Not · 4 min LangChain promises to simplify LLM development. Instead it adds abstraction layers you will fight against the moment your use case gets real. llm ai opinion Prompt Engineering Is Not Engineering · 3 min The term 'prompt engineering' oversells what is essentially clear writing. It is a useful skill, not a discipline. ai llm opinion GraphQL Federation: I'm Still Skeptical · 3 min A year after my GraphQL post, federation is the new hotness. I still think most teams don't need it. api microservices opinion Most 'Technical Debt' Is Just Decisions You Disagree With Now · 4 min The term 'technical debt' has become meaningless. Everything inconvenient is debt. Here's what it actually is, when it matters, and why most teams handle it wrong. technical-debt leadership architecture Platform Engineering Is Just DevOps With a Rebrand · 3 min The industry loves renaming things. Platform engineering is DevOps done properly — and most companies still won't do it right. platform-engineering devops infrastructure GraphQL Federation Is Probably Not For You · 4 min Most teams adopting GraphQL federation don't need it. When it makes sense, when REST is fine, and why conference talks are a bad basis for architecture. api architecture opinion Most Chaos Engineering Is Theater · 3 min Teams love saying they do chaos engineering. Few actually have hypotheses. Even fewer fix what they find. reliability opinion Most Edge Computing Projects Are Premature Optimization · 3 min Edge computing is real, but most teams adopting it don't have an edge problem. They have an architecture problem they're solving with geography. infrastructure architecture distributed-systems
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