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Cole MedinYour coding agent is making more decisions than you think
New research shows engineers unconsciously delegate decisions to coding agents. The real risk isn't bad code—it's losing independent judgment at scale.
AI EngineerWhy a Positive A/B Test Is Not Enough for AI Features
Bumble's PM reveals why a positive A/B test for an AI feature is only the start: low adoption, bad long-tail outputs, hidden costs, and regulatory walls.
AI EngineerVoice agent evals: from 33% agreement to 92% in regulated fintech
Upstart's voice agent evals went from 33% to 92% compliance agreement. The blueprint for deploying AI safely in regulated environments.
Latent SpaceOpenAI's finance lead: MCP error rates hit 40% — bundle data yourself
OpenAI's finance product lead reveals MCPs are unreliable, evals are broken, and 95% of what they built is replicable by startups.
AI EngineerLet Your Agent Pay? 6 Attack Vectors You Need to Patch First
X402 offers a path for agents to pay for data in 10-cent increments. Ishween Kaur shows six ways those payments fail—and how to catch them.
GOTO ConferencesDistributed protocol testing: ditch containers, use state machines
Distributed protocol testing is slow and flaky. One team's solution: extract the logic into a state machine, simulate thousands of nodes in a single thread…
AI EngineerThe Cheaper Model That Costs More: Why Custom Evals Matter
Cheaper AI models can be more expensive. Learn why custom evaluations are the only way to right-size model cost without sacrificing performance.
AI EngineerThe hidden collapse of human code review under AI volume
AI code generation is overwhelming human review. Cognitive surrender and error compounding demand a new governance approach.
AI EngineerRevolut cut AI coding costs 90%. The catch is GPU infrastructure
Revolut cut AI coding costs 90% by self-hosting open models on 56 GPUs. The real constraint is no longer model quality but time-to-first-token and GPU tuning.
AI EngineerProduction AI Agents Break Daily, But Trust Remains High
41% of AI agent teams hit daily failures. Trust remains high. State management is the #1 productivity blocker. Durable execution could change the game.
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