7 safeguards for observable AI agents

Many organizations are under pressure to take their AI agent experiments and proof of concepts out of pilots and into production. Devops teams may have limited time to ensure these AI agents meet AI agent non-negotiable requirements for production deployments, including implementing observability, monitoring, and other agenticops practices. One question devops teams must answer is…

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An architecture for engineering AI context

Ensuring reliable and scalable context management in production environments is one of the most persistent challenges in applied AI systems. As organizations move from experimenting with large language models (LLMs) to embedding them deeply into real applications, context has become the dominant bottleneck. Accuracy, reliability, and trust all depend on whether an AI system can…

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Spec-Driven Development: The Key to Protecting AI-Generated Data Products

The most dangerous data problems don’t trigger alerts or cause catastrophic failures. They look fine on the surface until the business realizes the damage they’ve done. AI-assisted development has increased in popularity, however, and this approach is only making the problem worse. Consider a dashboard built for workforce capacity planning. The person building the tool…

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How to land a software development job in an AI-focused world

It seems we are in a very perplexing and somewhat worrisome time in the technology job market. Artificial intelligence is disrupting workflows and changing job descriptions, while many companies are shedding staff due to years of “overhiring.” Some companies are freezing hiring due to market uncertainty. Whether you are seeking a full-time position or contracting…

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The agent security mess

Persistent weak layers (PWLs) have plagued my backcountry skiing for the past 10 years. They’re about to mess up the industry’s IT security, too. For those who don’t spend their early mornings skinning up mountains in Utah’s backcountry, a persistent weak layer, or PWL, is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a fragile layer of…

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