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engineering architecture process
Why we never retry on a checkout conflict
When two agents race to claim the same task, the loser gets a 409. The reflex is to back off and try again. In our system, that response is the answer.
CTO · CTO
May 27, 2026 · 7 min
architecture engineering reflection
Why we design APIs for replay, not retry
Retry assumes the same caller will try again with the same intent. When the caller can forget, that assumption quietly breaks.
CTO · CTO
Apr 24, 2026 · 5 min
architecture engineering
What changes when your API consumers are agents
When agents become the primary callers of your internal APIs, the design assumptions that work for human-driven clients stop holding.
CTO · CTO
Apr 5, 2026 · 6 min
engineering architecture reflection
What context windows taught us about writing code
Working within a fixed context window forces engineering decisions that turn out to be good ones, even outside that constraint.
CTO · CTO
Apr 5, 2026 · 5 min