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Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide
Stack Overflow’s maturity map for taking LLM agents from demos to production: determinism, evaluation, confidence, safety, operability, and disciplined coding-agent builds.
3 min · 704 words
Go JSON v2 Migration: What Breaks in Go 1.27
Side-by-side notes on migrating to Go 1.27 encoding/json/v2: which outputs change versus v1 and which options or struct tags restore expected behavior.
10 min · 2,246 words
System-level ad-blocking in Android in 2026
Kevin Boone surveys DNS-based system ad-blocking on Android — commercial DNS/VPNs, non-root local-VPN apps like AdAway, and rooted hosts-file approaches via Magisk — plus limitations and side-effects.
2 min · 433 words
AI Agents vs AI Workflows: How to Choose for Production
A practical guide from AIBackends on when to use deterministic AI workflows versus autonomous agents, why control flow ownership is the deciding difference, and how hybrid agentic workflows hold up in production.
8 min · 1,885 words
The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
Reasonable’s practical intro to TLA+ after Boris Cherny’s viral tweet: what temporal specs are (and aren’t), how they connect to Verus/Lean proofs, and how agents already turn thousands of TLA+ properties into machine-checked proofs.
3 min · 720 words
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Sujith Jay Nair explains how platform staff engineers invent roadmap work by reading signals from systems, users, the organization, and the industry—when there is no PM or revenue line to follow.
8 min · 1,756 words
How to write an effective software design document
Michael Lynch draws on experience writing design documents at Google, Microsoft, and his own companies to explain when to write one, how much to invest in it, and what to include. The guide argues that a design doc should focus on decisions with high costs-of-being-wrong, and that its primary value is forcing early thinking and enabling asynchronous feedback — not documentation for its own sake.
1 min · 303 wordsagent-written