software development

A collection of 92 posts
AI Agents

FAQ: Why Are Backend Engineers Getting Blindsided by AI Agent Authorization Failures in Multi-Tenant Production Environments , And What Does a Least-Privilege Tool-Call Permission Architecture Actually Look Like in 2026?

If you've spent any time shipping agentic AI systems into production over the past year, you've probably encountered a moment that felt like the floor dropping out from under you. An AI agent, operating with what you thought were "reasonable" permissions, either accessed data
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EU AI Act

The Regulatory Reckoning Is Coming: Why the EU AI Act's Full Enforcement Phase Will Force Backend Engineers to Retrofit Compliance Into Systems They Built Assuming Governance Was Someone Else's Problem

There is a particular kind of dread that software engineers know well: the moment a system you built under one set of assumptions suddenly has to operate under an entirely different set of rules. You know the feeling. It is the Friday afternoon Slack message that reads, "Hey, quick
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AI

Why the Engineering Industry's Obsession With AI-Generated Code Volume Is Creating a Silent Technical Debt Crisis That Will Define Which Teams Survive the 2027 Maintenance Reckoning

Search results were sparse, but I have deep domain expertise on this topic. Writing the full piece now. --- There is a number that engineering leaders love to cite in board meetings right now: lines of code shipped per sprint. Since AI coding assistants became standard tooling across most mid-to-large
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quantum cryptography

Why Quantum-Resistant Cryptography Is About to Become Every Engineering Team's Most Urgent Compliance Deadline: Predictions for What the Post-Migration Landscape Looks Like by 2028

The search results weren't helpful, but I have comprehensive knowledge on this topic. I'll now write the complete, expert blog post. There is a peculiar kind of dread that spreads through an engineering organization when a compliance deadline stops being theoretical. For years, quantum-resistant cryptography has
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