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AI EngineerManaging AI Like Humans Is the Only Way to Trust It
Forget prompt tricks—Upside.tech’s talk shows that managing AI like human teams, with context, docs, and peer review, is what builds trust in agentic workflows.
AI EngineerComprehension Is the New Bottleneck in AI Development
As AI agents write more code, the real bottleneck shifts from correctness to comprehension. Geoffrey Litt offers techniques to prevent cognitive debt.
AI EngineerWhen Code Is Free, Proof Becomes Your Only Leverage
AI code is cheap, attention isn’t. The real debate is routing proof by task risk. We break down the continuum and routing table.
AWS DevelopersContext Engineering Is Breaking Your AI Agents—Here’s How to Fix It
Oversized prompts degrade agent reasoning and burn token budgets. Smart context engineering cuts costs and boosts accuracy, but has sharp tradeoffs.
Hussein NasserHow Pagination Optimization Birthed Addictive Infinite Scroll
Offset pagination gets slower as users go deeper. Cursor-based pagination fixed it but inadvertently enabled addictive infinite scroll.
David OndrejToken Billionaires Fail Without Taste
Token-hungry AI agents are everywhere, but the best engineers rely on loop design, guardrails, data structures, and manual testing—taste still matters.
GOTO ConferencesARM Adoption: The Cost Win Nobody Can Ignore
ARM instances cut cloud costs up to 40% and .NET is ready. Learn the migration cheat sheet, case studies, and key tradeoffs for ARM adoption.
InfoQJava Lambda Cold Starts Are Fixable—But Most Teams Quit Too Early
SnapStart with priming cuts Java Lambda cold starts to 700ms, but the real gain comes after cache warming—most teams miss it.
Theo - t3․ggGrok 4.5: The cheap, capable coder that reshapes AI tool economics
Grok 4.5 is a cheap, capable code model jointly trained with Cursor. Its cost forces a two-tier AI strategy, but a tainted benchmark raises governance risks.
OpenAIVoice AI’s Full-Duplex Shift: Smarter, but Still Scripted
OpenAI's GPT Live 1 introduces full-duplex voice and reasoning delegation, erasing turn boundaries but leaving cost and readiness questions open.
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