Build vs buy: the real cost of a human-in-the-loop approval loop
What it actually takes to build agent approvals in-house: delivery, enrollment, pending state, fail-closed timeouts, recovery, and audit, itemized honestly.
Pushary Blog5 min read
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Fail-closed by default: why agent approvals should block instead of fire and forget
An agent approval that assumes yes on timeout is an approval in name only. The case for fail-closed defaults, and what it takes to implement them.
Pushary Blog5 min readThe gap between notifying a human and getting a decision back
Notification APIs consider the job done at delivery. An agent approval's job starts there: hold the agent, collect the answer, fail closed, keep the record.
Pushary Blog5 min read
Docs URL Benchmark: Markdown & llms.txt > HTML
We benchmarked four ways to serve documentation to AI agents (HTML, plain markdown, markdown linking to llms.txt, and markdown with llms.txt inlined) across 2,400 runs on 20 Mintlify docs sites, and found that a single link to llms.txt eliminates most agent 404s at no added cost.
Mintlify Blog5 min read
Snoop away
What a user's full GitHits MCP trace revealed about slow indexing, excessive tool calls, JSON overhead, missing visibility, and what we're changing.
GitHits beta 0.9 Blog6 min read
How to build a cloud software factory - self-improving code review
I'll describe how to build a code review agent, and how to have the quality of reviews it produces automatically improve over time as part of a cloud software factory.
Warp Blog7 min read
How bitdrift scaled to 121 million concurrent gRPC connections on Amazon CloudFront for live telemetry sporting events
When onboarding a customer serving live T20 World Cup cricket matches, bitdrift had to support surges to millions of concurrent gRPC connections in seconds.
bitdrift Blog11 min read
Moo: Giving Your Agents the Runtime Isolation git worktrees Need
git worktree isolates your files. Moo isolates the database, ports, and services, saved per commit. Together, they give your agents fully isolated machines. Learn how to use Moo, the benefits, and why your agents need it.
Ito Blog7 min read
Keeping Claude in the Loop
We mentioned a bug in a meeting on Tuesday. This morning, Claude Code suggested fixing it the moment I opened my terminal — and twenty minutes later there was a PR. Here's how ari-hooks wires Ari into Claude Code, and why we don't use a ticketing system anymore.
Oats Blog6 min read
Doing the right thing when things go wrong
When customers rely on you, minutes matter in an incident. Here's the process Fin's engineers follow to detect, mitigate, and learn from every one.
Intercom Fin Blog10 min read
What we learned after moving 100B tokens/week to open-weight models
Ito moved production QA agents from GPT-5.3-codex to open-weights. Here's what we saved, why inference providers matter as much as models, and what to check.
Ito Blog5 min read
MCP for Kubernetes: Live Cluster Context for AI Tools
Pointing an AI at raw kubectl works, badly. Radar's built-in MCP server gives Claude, Cursor, and friends a token-optimized, RBAC-aware view of your cluster.
Radar Blog9 min read
A guide to cloud software factories for engineering leaders
Software development is shifting from interactive coding agents to cloud software factories — systems that automate major parts of the SDLC while improving security, compliance, and measurable ROI.
Warp Blog13 min readStop making your agent ask permission for everything. Or nothing.
A container keeps your agent off the disk. It does nothing once the agent reaches past it. Here is the line worth drawing, plus the classifier code that enforces it.
Pushary Blog8 min read
Reducing Android JVM allocations for less memory pressure and faster logs
Substantially reduce JVM allocations on common Android logging paths by removing map-shaped work from SDK internals and improve runtime along the way.
bitdrift Blog8 min read
How Elva reads a repo: from route handlers to OpenAPI 3.1
Static analysis, framework fingerprints, and the messy middle where code and spec disagree.
Elva Blog10 min read
Running PII detection locally with the Rampart NER model
How Arcjet added an optional on-device model backend for sensitive information detection: a pluggable rule interface, deterministic recognizers for structured data, offset reconstruction for token-classification output, and local ONNX inference in the request path.
Arcjet Blog11 min read
How to build a cloud software factory - add spec-driven development skills
This is my second post in a series on how to build out a fully automated cloud software factory. In this post, I’ll show how you can add spec-driven development for issues that are too complex or ambiguous to one-shot. The goal of these posts is to build a fully working...
Warp Blog4 min read
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