Your CI/CD pipeline can’t test a model. Here’s what to build instead.
The pipeline that deploys your web app runs 400 unit tests. The pipeline that deploys your model runs… what, exactly?
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Cloud native for AI workloads: what’s actually different
Your Kubernetes cluster was designed for stateless HTTP handlers. Your AI workload is none of those things.
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The 8 Fallacies are 30 years old. They’re worse with LLMs.
Peter Deutsch wrote the fallacies in 1994. LLM-backed architectures violate all eight, sometimes in the same request.
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You probably want a modular monolith
We build microservices. We also talk clients out of them fairly often, and this is the argument we use.
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The 7 Rs are fine. The problem is everyone picks rehost.
An assessment that returns the same answer for every application is not an assessment.
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What 30-year-old COBOL taught us about writing agent specifications
Extracting business rules from a legacy policy administration system turns out to be the same problem as specifying an agent.
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Build the evaluation harness before you build the agent
Every agent programme we’ve seen fail shared one property: nobody could say whether the agent was getting better.