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Jul 17

Six ways to attribute AI agent costs — and where each one quietly breaks

A recent r/FinOps thread laid out six approaches teams are using to attribute the cost of AI agents. It’s a good list — the sharpest single…

Six ways to attribute AI agent costs — and where each one quietly breaks

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Dec 15, 2024

Beyond Tokens: How Byte Latent Transformers (BLT) Are Solving the $10B Language Model Crisis

In the last few years, tech giants collectively spent over $10 billion training large language models that still struggle with basic…

Beyond Tokens: How Byte Latent Transformers (BLT) Are Solving the $10B Language Model Crisis

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Aug 26, 2024

How the48 laws of power changed my perspective as a Senior Software Engineer

Here I will share my views on 48 laws of Power and how managers and engineers can navigate the company culture in modern, an beaurocratic…

How the48 laws of power changed my perspective as a Senior Software Engineer

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Oct 4, 2024

10 Key Insights into Neuromorphic Computing: Challenges and Potential

Neuromorphic computing, a field that draws inspiration from the human brain’s architecture, is poised to revolutionize information…

10 Key Insights into Neuromorphic Computing: Challenges and Potential

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Oct 15, 2023

Build a Super Simple but Scalable User Login System in Go, Cassandra & Docker

A simple how-to to build a Docker file using go, cassandra with astrodb and docker

Build a Super Simple but Scalable User Login System in Go, Cassandra & Docker

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The evaluator forgot the session

A saved-state resume exposed a fresh-start assumption in a transcript checker.

The evaluator forgot the session. Saved state leads to a restored map and next question, but the original checker counts zero diagnostic questions before the first map. Synthetic fixtures, local candidate patch, no tutoring-quality claim.

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A timeout is not a failure

A timeout tells you how long you waited, not what the other system did.

Title card for When Agents Fail, Part 1: A timeout is not a failure. Two synthetic runs both log intent, sent, timeout and classify as UNKNOWN. Lost reply has receipt rcpt-0001; not delivered has no receipt. The book cover appears below.

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Nov 6

Can you still finish when the assistant disappears?

A structured handoff note for paused AI-assisted work, with a check for stale claims and a proposed test that has not been run with people.

Can you still finish when the assistant disappears? A structured handoff note points at evidence. Proposed test; no participant study run.

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Nov 5

Juniors without tickets: growing engineers when agents take the starter work

What the research says about learning with an AI assistant, and the starter work I'd give a junior instead.

Title card: Juniors without tickets, growing engineers when agents take the starter work. A Learn app question has a disabled Make a guess button. Three cited figures read: 4.5% entry-level software postings, 19% below trend for ages 22–25 in AI-exposed jobs, and a 17-percentage-point quiz gap with AI.

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Oct 31

Architect of Intent: software engineering isn’t ending, the typing is

The paper behind the ‘Chinese researchers say software engineering is dead’ posts is arXiv 2606.05608: one author at a Shenzhen…

Title card reading: Architect of Intent: software engineering isn’t ending, the typing is. Kicker: Human in the Loop, essay. Stats row: 1 author, 6 days from ‘ending’ to ‘not ending’, a best score of 38.03 percent on continuous evolution against over 80 percent on isolated tasks. On the right, the isometric intent bench: a lit SPEC block, two rows of six test blocks, and a gantry with two dial indicators.

Tim Urista | Senior Cloud Engineer

Tim Urista | Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Tech leader, growth mindset. Look me up professionally: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyurista and https://timurista.ai/products.

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