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Software architecture for AI-native apps - orchestration layers, context engineering, and persistent harnesses.
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How OpenAI Built GPT-Live: Full-Duplex Voice, WARP, and the Death of the Turn Detector
How OpenAI built GPT-Live: a full-duplex voice model with no turn detector, Go on the media path, stateful handoffs, and the new WARP WebRTC transport.
8 min read
MCP vs Agent Skills: When to Use Which (and Why You Need Both)
MCP vs Agent Skills: MCP gives agents live access to tools and data, Skills give them packaged procedure. The decision rule for when to use which, or both.
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The Log Is the Agent: Event Sourcing Comes to AI Systems
Event sourcing for AI agents: a new paper makes the append-only log the source of truth for agent state. What it enables, and whether HN thinks it is just CQRS.
7 min read
There Are No Instances in ATProto - Dan Abramov Explains the Architecture
There are no instances in ATProto: Dan Abramov explains how Bluesky's protocol separates hosting from apps, what Hacker News pushed back on, and why it matters.
7 min read
Agent Architecture: Building Multi-Step AI Workflows That Survive Production
Agent architecture for multi-step Claude workflows: loop patterns, state management, error recovery, and the production gotchas that break agents at scale.
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The Agent Reliability Cliff: Why Your 10-Step Chain Only Succeeds 20% of the Time
The agent reliability cliff: 85% per-step success compounds to about 20% over 10 steps. Why long chains collapse, and six patterns that fight the decay.
9 min read
Intent Debt: The AI-Era Debt Nobody Is Tracking
Intent debt is the third layer of AI-era debt Martin Fowler describes, after technical and cognitive debt. What it is and how to diagnose it in your project.
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7 AI Agent Orchestration Patterns Developers Should Know
Seven AI agent orchestration patterns for production, from single-agent baselines to multi-level hierarchies, each with a decision rule, sketch and tradeoffs.
10 min read
Progressive Disclosure: How Claude Code Cut Token Usage by 98%
Progressive disclosure lets agents load tools only when needed. How Cloudflare, Anthropic and Cursor cut token usage, and how to do it in Claude Code.
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