AWSField note
The One Lambda Setting Everyone Forgets
A quick tip on provisioned concurrency that saved a client from cold start timeouts in production.
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Practical guidance for active work.
Focused approaches, design principles and next moves for teams working through real delivery questions.Field notes
Practical guidance for active work.
AI productivity measurementField note
Measure AI Delivery Gains from Request to Reliable Release
A practical scorecard for separating faster generation from better delivery, using review effort, rework, reliability and total cost.
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Agent evaluation and operationsField note
An Agent Evaluation Should End in a Release Decision
Build a repeatable evaluation set around business outcomes, permitted actions and recovery, then use it to decide what an agent may do.
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Specification development with AIField note
The Specification Becomes the Control Plane
AI can accelerate delivery only when intent, boundaries, evidence and failure behavior are explicit enough to govern the work.
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AI-Driven Testing Must Prove the Behavior
Generated tests create value when they challenge behavior, boundaries and failure using an independent definition of correctness.
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Production AI agentsField note
AI Agents Need an Operating Contract
Tool use, memory and autonomy become enterprise capabilities only when identity, permissions, evidence and interruption are designed together.
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Brownfield development with CodexField note
Brownfield Development with Codex: Map Before You Change
The safest use of coding agents in mature systems begins with context recovery, a focused change and a tested path back.
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Useful detail for work already in motion.
Complete implementation notes, checks and working methods preserved from the earlier Primus library.
AutomationField note
Process Discovery Red Flags
Five signs a process isn't ready for automation—spotted in the first 30 minutes of discovery.
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Enterprise AIField note
When RAG Retrieval Goes Wrong
Common chunking mistakes that make your enterprise search return irrelevant results.
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Data engineeringField note
Snowflake Cost Surprise? Check This First
The warehouse auto-suspend setting that accounts for 40% of unexpected Snowflake bills.
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Trust & complianceField note
SOC 2 Evidence Collection Shortcut
How we automated 80% of evidence collection using tools you already have.
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The UAT Checklist Nobody Uses
A simple pre-UAT checklist that reduced our client escalations by 60%.
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