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Aug 20, 20262 min
What a trading engine taught me about agent retries
Exchange infrastructure solved idempotency, retry storms, and partial failure decades ago. Agent frameworks are rediscovering all three the hard way.
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Aug 13, 20263 minMembers
The eval harness is the product
If you cannot prove your AI feature got better this week, you are not engineering it — you are decorating it. A working harness, and the failure modes that make most of them lie.
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Aug 6, 20261 min
Determinism is a budget, not a property
You cannot make an LLM deterministic. You can decide exactly how much nondeterminism each part of your system is allowed to spend, and enforce it at the boundaries.
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