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Designing an AI-Augmented Search Engine

3d ago · 14 min read · 🗓️ Last updated: June 2026 For two decades, the system design answer for "how would you build search" was stable: crawler, inverted index, distributed retrieval, ranking, caching, frontend. The whit

More Agents, More Problems

5d ago · 14 min read · 🗓️ Last updated: June 2026 Multiagent systems get pitched as the next leap in agentic capability. Single agent struggling with a long task? Add a planner. Reasoning is shallow? Add a critic. Output

Your Agent Has a Spending Problem

Jun 11 · 15 min read · Last updated: June 2026, reflecting current prompt caching, model routing, and orchestrator level budget enforcement patterns. Picture a familiar moment. An agent has been running in production for t

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In Probabilistic Systems, You Watch the Shape of Success

Jun 9 · 18 min read · 🗓️ Last updated June 2026. Field names and stability levels track the still evolving OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions; check them against the official spec on GitHub before adoption. There's

Reasoning Is Cheap, Side Effects Are Forever

Jun 4 · 15 min read · 🗓️ Last updated: June 2026. Reflecting current tool use patterns and saga based agent architectures. There's a quiet failure mode buried in every agentic system that touches the real world: The agen