Morty Taghdisi
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Architecture, mobile SDKs, platform quality, and what AI agents change in delivery.
AI and agentsAgent-Written Prose Has No Failing TestFormatting, link and traceability checks do not establish whether a claim in an agent-written memo or article is true. Claims with data behind them get executable checks; the rest need source review by a reader who is not the writer.ReadSeries
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- Agent-Written Prose Has No Failing Test
- What a Passing Test or Eval Tells You About an Agent-Written Change
- AI Agents in the SDLC: What Changes Beyond Code Generation
- Agents Can Open the Pull Request, but They Cannot Sign the Release
- How to Tell Whether the Agent Workflow Improved Delivery
- Finding Service Boundaries That Teams Can Own
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication
- Timeouts, Retries, Idempotency, And Backpressure
- API Design As Architecture
- Architecture Is Mostly Tradeoffs: Naming What A Decision Costs
- Change Safety: Testing Systems You Cannot Fully Stage
- Database Migrations Without Breaking Production
- Mobile And Backend Architecture Are One System
- Monoliths, Modular Monoliths, And Services Without Hype
- Observability That Changes Architecture Decisions
- SDK Architecture For Systems Other Developers Depend On
- What Architects Actually Decide
- Keeping Spring Boot Delivery Aligned with Product Context and Engineering Standards
- LLM Wiki for Software Teams: Two Problems AI Agents Can't Fix Themselves
- Production-Grade @Transactional: Patterns, Testing, and Monitoring
- Fixing JPA Performance Traps
- How @Transactional Really Works
- What Actually Happens When You Save an Entity
- Production Patterns for CompletableFuture
- Handling CompletableFuture Failures in Spring Boot
- Composing Async Work with CompletableFuture
- Why CompletableFuture Exists
- Same Concepts, Native Experience
- Secure Defaults for Mobile SDKs
- Shipping the SDK Is Where Trust Starts
- Developers Do Not Mind Errors. They Mind Unclear Errors.
- Initialization, State, and Thread Safety in Mobile SDKs
- The Public API Surface Is the Product
- Designing a Mobile SDK That Developers Actually Want to Use
- AI Agents Need Architectural Boundaries, Not Just Prompts
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