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User Safety in Production Systems: Designing for Secure, Reliable Interaction

Exploring production-proven patterns that keep users safe from malicious input, privilege escalation, and cascading failures in modern software systems.

October 15, 2026 · 7 min · 1430 words · martinuke0
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Also we must not be too: The perils of over-engineering in production systems

A practical guide to recognizing over-engineering traps in system design, with concrete anti-patterns, architecture strategies, and hard-won lessons from real outages.

September 14, 2026 · 8 min · 1505 words · martinuke0
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The Rise of Local-First Autonomous Development: How Offline AI Pipelines Are Reshaping Software Engineering

A deep dive into the architectural patterns behind local-first autonomous development pipelines, examining how offline AI agents can orchestrate end-to-end software creation without cloud dependencies.

September 10, 2026 · 12 min · 2502 words · martinuke0
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User Safety: Building Secure and Resilient Experiences for Real-World Systems

Exploring concrete user safety patterns, from authentication and authorization to production-grade failure handling, with real-world architectures and actionable takeaways.

September 7, 2026 · 7 min · 1456 words · martinuke0
Abstract visualization of code transforming into an agent orchestration layer, with nodes and data flow representing autonomous agent behavior.

Code as Agent Harness

Code as Agent Harness reframes the relationship between application code and AI agents. Instead of writing prompts, engineers design harnesses — structured code layers that define tools, guardrails, and orchestration logic for autonomous systems.

September 7, 2026 · 9 min · 1753 words · martinuke0
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