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Deep Engineering #65: Nikolai Kutiavin on Designing C++ Projects as Components, Not Files
On target-centric CMake, enforced dependencies, and search logic you can test without starting Qt
 • Saqib Jan
Governance Has to Become Infrastructure When Agents Write the Code
On why review processes built for human-paced development break under AI, and what it takes to make engineering standards enforceable by machines
 • Saqib Jan
EY Bounds Agent Autonomy by Risk, Not by Capability
On why the agent boundary is a governance decision, and what has to exist before enterprise AI moves past the pilot
 • Saqib Jan
Deep Engineering #64: Vijoy Pandey on How Team Topologies Strain As AI Shrinks the Delivery Unit
Inside the architecture of an organizational memory engine, the source hierarchy that governs what enters it, and the decision structure that routes…
 • Saqib Jan
How Cisco's Outshift Runs Engineering On AI Tiny Teams And A Memory Engine
Vijoy Pandey shrank his teams to five people and explains what that costs, and the memory engine and decision leads Outshift built to hold it together
 • Saqib Jan
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Deep Engineering #63: Imran Ahmad on Building the Deterministic Shell Around an AI System
The model will still be wrong. Making sure the wrong answer cannot do anything about it.
 • Saqib Jan and Imran Ahmad
Reliable AI Systems Are Five Rings of Boring Code
On Input validation, context assembly, bounded control flow, output guards, and telemetry. About forty lines of ordinary software wrapped around one…
 • Imran Ahmad
How 10 years of C++ changed the way I see a C++ project
Component boundaries, target-centric CMake, and code designed for testability in a small Qt application.
Deep Engineering #62: James Ward on Wiring Agents to Tools, Data and Everything Else
A model is inert on its own, and most of what makes an agent useful is engineering that happens outside it
 • Saqib Jan
Agents Are Just LLMs With Integrations, Running in a Loop
On Tools, MCP, tool search, skills, memory, RAG and human in the loop, built with Spring AI and Java
 • Saqib Jan

August 2026

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