1+ hour, 30+ min ago   (504+ words) This guide compares the main modernisation strategies, when each makes sense, and how to choose. The drivers are consistent across UK enterprises: the COBOL and mainframe skills pool is retiring, mainframe operating costs are high, the systems are hard to…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1655+ words) Most teams still pick one LLM and send every request to it. That worked in 2023 when there were three viable models. In 2026, with dozens of frontier, mid-tier, and specialist models — each with different pricing, latency, and quality profiles — committing to…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (480+ words) From a business perspective, system instability during peak usage events directly damages user retention, degrades brand trust, and triggers SLA violations. For e-commerce, financial platforms, and real-time gaming, a latency spike or dropped connection state can result in direct financial…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago   (650+ words) The agent had been running for four hours and it was arguing with itself about a file it had already fixed. For years I'd thought about context window management as a packing problem. How do I fit more in. That…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago   (332+ words) A polished AI-generated website can hide an unfinished delivery model. The hard question is not whether a builder can produce a convincing page. It is whether the next person can safely change the real system without reconstructing the original prompt,…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (564+ words) Disclosure: I maintain Selvedge, an open-source decision-history tool. This article was prepared with AI assistance from Grok and Codex. The example below is hypothetical and uses plain Markdown; it does not require a particular product. A repository can show what…...

3+ hour, 26+ min ago   (623+ words) The agent we built in Post #4 has one big problem — the moment the script ends, it forgets everything. Next time you run it, it starts from zero. No memory of past conversations, no retained facts, nothing. For a quick experiment…...

3+ hour, 10+ min ago   (564+ words) The state where memory (Chapter 3), hook gates (Chapter 4), and the auditor (Chapter 6) are in place. The AI hasn't become more capable — what's been built is an environment where it's hard to be wrong. Graduation criteria: the recurrence rate of the…...

3+ hour, 25+ min ago   (415+ words) I was building a tool that detects when data quietly changes meaning — a vendor switching units, a source dropping a field, an undocumented enum appearing. The kind of failure where every test passes and every job is green. Claims about…...

3+ hour, 30+ min ago   (110+ words) One-liner: A distributed lock ensures that only one node in a cluster can perform a critical operation at a time — preventing race conditions across services. In a single-server world, a mutex or semaphore handles concurrency. But in distributed systems: Classic…...