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View all blog posts30 AI Terms to Know: MCP, Skills, Agents, Workflows and More
30 AI terms in two or three plain sentences each, placed on one diagram: what the model sees, what it can call, and what runs around it. MCP, skills, hooks, subagents, RAG, workflows, and the pairs people mix up.
Weekend Reading #97
Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.
AI Across the SDLC, Part 3: What to Build Before You Give Agents Write Access
Once an AI agent can push to Git, prompt injection becomes an authorization problem. Six things to build before agents get write access: a scoped identity, policy outside the model, a sandbox, MCP review, advisory CI, and traces.
18 Entity Framework Core Mistakes Slowing Down Your Application
EF Core makes the slow path look exactly like the fast path. A scan, an N+1 loop, and a cartesian join all read like clean LINQ. This guide walks through 18 concrete mistakes across querying, related data, change tracking, indexes, plan caching, and context overhead, with the fix for each and a ready-to-use rule for your AI coding assistant.
Weekend Reading #96
Weekend Reading #96 covers AI controls across the SDLC, Meta’s confidential processing architecture for AI glasses, automated dependency analysis across Uber’s service mesh, and Elastic’s benchmark-driven system for safely optimizing Elasticsearch with coding agents.