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Practical notes on engineering, applied AI, technical leadership, and the lessons worth passing on from building real systems.

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Behind Gemini: Key Lessons I Learned from the 2026 Google Cloud AI SWE Forum cover preview

Behind Gemini: Key Lessons I Learned from the 2026 Google Cloud AI SWE Forum

Notes from an invite-only Google Cloud forum on Cloud AI and Security Operations: when to trust an agent, when to stay deterministic, and why generalist engineers still win.

  • Applied AI
  • Cloud Security
  • Engineering Career
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The Reliability Lessons LLM Engineers Can Learn From Robotics cover preview

The Reliability Lessons LLM Engineers Can Learn From Robotics

Why safety must be built outside the model, and how to design deterministic boundaries around probabilistic AI components.

  • Reliability
  • Robotics
  • Applied AI
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