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IBM Lost $30 Billion in a Day - Because of AI
AI can now modernize the ancient code that runs your bank. IBM's stock cratered 13% when the market realized what that means for their consulting business.
Thoughts

How AI Assistants Find the Right Answer
AI chatbots can sound confident while being completely wrong. There's a technique called RAG that helps ground them in real data - but it's not always worth the complexity.
Engineering

Kafka's Duplicate Message Problem
Your Kafka consumers are processing messages twice and you don't even know it. The culprit? Consumer group rebalancing. Here's how it works, why it breaks, and what to do about it.
Scaling Systems

How I Gave My Website a Brain
Instead of making visitors click through pages to learn about me, I built an AI assistant they can just talk to. Here's how it works and the decisions behind it.
Engineering