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Latest publications

Architecture

Context Engineering Is Becoming the Operating System for Production AI

Model choice has a short half-life. What increasingly separates production systems is how they assemble, type, budget and defend the context around the model.

1 September 2026 · 8 min read

Architecture

When AI Meets Smart Contracts: Designing Deterministic Boundaries

AI reasons probabilistically; contracts execute deterministically. The strongest designs use that difference on purpose — and treat the oracle as where determinism leaks.

1 September 2026 · 8 min read

Governance

Human Oversight Fails When It Is Designed as a Button

Oversight is only real while detection, decision and action still fit before the point of irreversibility. A latency budget makes that measurable.

1 September 2026 · 7 min read

Reliability

From AI Prototype to Production System: The Architecture of Recoverability

A production system is not one that avoids failure. It is one whose failures are bounded, observable and recoverable — which cannot be retrofitted cheaply.

1 September 2026 · 8 min read

Reliability

Why Agentic AI Systems Fail at Scale: A Reliability Budget

A 99%-reliable step sounds excellent until you chain fifty of them. How to budget reliability across a system instead of tuning prompts.

1 September 2026 · 5 min read