AI Engineering
7 posts on ai engineering.
Admin and Today's Date: Preparing for the Agentic Cyber War
Two of the biggest attacks of autumn 2026 weren't clever. A fridge controller with a password built from the date, and a fake job interview. What AI actually changed, and how developers and agencies should get ready.
php2shell: What AI Actually Changed, and What It Didn't
The headline says AI found a 22-year-old bug in 2 days. Both numbers are wrong, and the real ones tell a better story about what just happened to PHP.
Cognitive Debt: The Hidden Cost of the Agentic SDLC
Code is no longer the bottleneck. Understanding is. What agentic development actually costs a small team, why review load is the thing that burns people out, and how much AI you should really be using.
What It Means to Be a Forward Deployed AI Engineer
The role sits at the edge between product, engineering, and customer — and it is reshaping what senior engineers actually do.
RAG Systems in Production: Beyond the Basics
Once you move past the naive retrieve-and-generate pattern, building a reliable RAG system is primarily an engineering problem.
Patterns in Agentic AI Systems — What Production Actually Looks Like
A practical look at the architectures, failure modes, and engineering trade-offs that define real-world agentic AI deployments.
Why AI Will Not Replace Software Engineers Anytime Soon
A breakdown of why AI is a tool, not a replacement, for software engineers, focusing on the human elements of the job.