When Your AI Agent Needs a Principal Engineer, Not More Prompt Tuning
A practical guide for founders and CTOs: the signs your AI agent no longer needs more prompt tuning and now needs principal-level engineering judgment.
2026-05-07 · 8 min
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LangGraph State Management: Checkpointing, Recovery, and the Persistence Layer Decision
LangGraph state schema design, checkpointer backend selection, selective checkpointing, and crash recovery patterns for production AI agent deployments.
2026-05-06 · 8 min
What A Stabilization Sprint Actually Looks Like
What a stabilization sprint actually looks like for a stressed AI system: isolate the hot path, bound the rescue scope, remediate the failure mode, and restore a safer operating baseline.
2026-05-05 · 8 min
CrewAI Memory Systems in Production: Persistence, Retrieval, and State Recovery
CrewAI memory in production requires decisions about persistence backends, retrieval strategies, and state recovery that the quickstart docs do not cover.
2026-05-04 · 8 min
What an Enterprise Agentic Portfolio Review Should Produce in 30 Days
A practical 30-day enterprise agentic portfolio review: initiative inventory, classification rules, funding decisions, governance gates, and a 90-day priority list.
2026-04-30 · 8 min
The Production Readiness Checklist for CrewAI and Multi-Agent Systems
A production readiness checklist for CrewAI and multi-agent systems: orchestration, delegation, tool safety, evals, observability, and human review.
2026-04-28 · 8 min
Architecture Decisions That Cost Startups 6 Months
The startup AI architecture decisions that quietly cost six months: wrong abstraction layers, premature agents, weak evals, unsafe tool access, and missing ownership.
2026-04-23 · 8 min
What an Enterprise AI Governance Review Should Produce in 30 Days
A practical 30-day enterprise AI governance review: decision artifacts, risk map, ownership model, approval points, vendor scoring, and rollout priorities.
2026-04-21 · 8 min
How To Audit an AI Agent Architecture Before It Hardens
A practical architecture audit for AI agents: state, tools, review paths, evaluations, blast radius, and the design choices that become expensive later.
2026-04-16 · 8 min
5 Signs Your AI System Needs a Production Audit
Five signs your AI system needs a production audit before reliability, governance, cost, or architecture debt gets harder to unwind.
2026-04-14 · 7 min
Your Highest-Value Workflows Are the Hardest to Automate
Most AI automation projects fail because teams automate visible workflows, not valuable ones. Here's the framework for identifying and sequencing
2026-03-24 · 17 min
Context Engineering for Production AI Agents
Context engineering is replacing prompt engineering as the discipline that determines whether AI agents succeed in production. Here's the architecture
2026-03-24 · 14 min