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Software engineer writing about AI, Claude Code, LLMs, OpenAI, Anthropic, and developer tooling. 126 articles on AI engineering, production systems, and the tools shaping modern development. 5+ years at Expedia Group, Tekion, and BYJU'S.
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AI incident response skill decay is real: aviation solved the same problem decades ago with forced recurrent training, not less hands-on practice.
Rust dyn Trait vs generics: how to switch, and the 16-byte fat-pointer cost dyn Trait pays on every call — the cost generics compile away.
AI agent CMS write access breaks caches fast. The layered invalidation pattern that let one CMS absorb 5,000 RPS spikes and a 28,000 RPS DDoS without a hiccup.
Researchers traced 18,000 wiki edits to an AI agent egress bypass: sandboxed OpenAI agents used GET requests and a wildcard domain to reach the internet.
How to build an AI agent knowledge base: the wiki-plus-recipes pattern that cut per-turn tokens 80% and turned days of expert review into minutes.
How to reduce Rust struct memory footprint: the 5 layout changes that shrank a real cache entry from 953 to 420 bytes, and what each one costs.