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April 202611 min read
Designing Backends for Agents, Not Just Humans
Your backend was designed for a human clicking buttons in a React app. In 2026, a meaningful slice of your traffic is LLMs calling your endpoints — and they don't read docs, don't skim, and retry until they succeed. The architecture has to catch up.
AI AgentsAPI DesignBackend ArchitectureDevOpsMCP2026
Read postMarch 202611 min read
Software Engineering Isn't Dead — But the Old Way of Working Is
157,000 tech layoffs in 2025. Salesforce froze engineering hires. Claude Code in 69% of enterprise teams. I went through the actual research so you don't have to panic-read headlines.
AICareerSoftware EngineeringCoding Agents2026
Read postFebruary 202512 min read
Three Years of LLMs: What the Benchmarks Actually Show
In late 2022, GPT-4 couldn't reliably solve competition math problems. By 2025, reasoning models are outscoring domain-expert PhDs on their own subject matter. I tried to put the full arc into one place.
AI ModelsBenchmarksLLMsDeep Learning
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