When the actor in your systems is an AI
Anthropic, Grab and Meta each shipped infrastructure work this week that, read together, sketches the early blueprint for running autonomous AI agents safely inside a real company.
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Practice
How leading engineering teams build, ship, and operate real systems — from their own blogs.
Three levers a serious engineering org pulls to get better
Correctness, infrastructure, culture. Jane Street, Slack and The Guardian each pulled a different lever this month — and together they show where lasting advantage hides when demos get cheap.
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When something is always breaking
Three teams — Cloudflare, Netflix and Airbnb — on three faces of staying reliable at scale: how to undo a half-finished job, schedule a flood of work fairly, and push changes to thousands of servers without breaking any.
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Field notes: nine builds, three threads
From AIs that talk to each other in shorthand to a four-line fix after a six-week bug hunt — nine recent reads, and the threads that tie them together.
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