ARCHITECTURE

Dan Abramov's explainer on ATProto architecture is making the rounds. The core insight: Bluesky's protocol separates hosting from applications in a way that Mastodon-style federation fundamentally cannot. Here's what that means for developers.

A practical architecture for multi-step Claude agents. Loop patterns, state management, error recovery, and the production gotchas that turn a five-step demo into a 20 percent success rate at scale.

The math of agent pipelines is brutal. 85% reliability per step compounds to about 20% at 10 steps. Here is why long chains collapse in production, and the six patterns the field has converged on to fight the decay.

Martin Fowler reframes AI-era debt into three layers - technical, cognitive, and intent. The third one is the one most teams are silently accumulating. Here is what it is and how to diagnose it.

From single-agent baselines to multi-level hierarchies, these are the seven patterns for wiring AI agents together in production. Each with a decision rule, an implementation sketch, and the tradeoffs that actually matter.

CloudFlare, Anthropic, and Cursor independently discovered the same pattern: don't load all tools upfront. Let agents discover what they need. The results are dramatic.