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March 2026 · 10 articles
AI That Ships

Your AI Has Feelings. It Can Also Write Kernel Exploits. That's the Same Conversation Now.

Anthropic's emotion vectors research and Mythos Preview dropped five days apart. Everyone's covering them as separate stories. They aren't.

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Engineering Leadership

The Boring Pattern That Made Our Deploys 10x Safer (It's Feature Flags. But Hear Me Out.)

It's feature flags. But the way we use them changes everything about how you think about releases.

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Technical Decisions

Microservices Were Probably a Mistake for Your Company. Let's Just Say It.

AI That Ships

Agentic AI Is Going to Change Everything. We're Just Not Sure How Yet.

AI That Ships

How We Evaluate Whether AI Is the Right Solution (Before Writing a Single Line of Code)

Technical Decisions

Every Big Technical Decision You've Made in the Last Two Years Was Probably a Bet. Did You Know That?

AI & Technology
Mar 2026

Agentic AI Is Going to Change Everything. We're Just Not Sure How Yet.

Our honest assessment of where agentic AI stands: what's real, what's promising, and what concerns us.

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Mar 2026

How We Evaluate Whether AI Is the Right Solution (Before Writing a Single Line of Code)

Five questions we ask before writing a single line of code. They'll save you time and money.

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Engineering & Operations
Mar 2026

The Boring Pattern That Made Our Deploys 10x Safer (It's Feature Flags. But Hear Me Out.)

It's feature flags. But the way we use them changes everything about how you think about releases.

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Feb 2026

Your Engineering Org Doesn't Have a Talent Problem. It Has a Leadership Vacuum.

The IC-to-manager trap, architecture by committee, and what scaling engineering leadership actually requires.

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Strategy & Decisions
Mar 2026

Microservices Were Probably a Mistake for Your Company. Let's Just Say It.

For most companies, at most stages, microservices created more problems than they solved. Let's have that conversation.

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Mar 2026

Every Big Technical Decision You've Made in the Last Two Years Was Probably a Bet. Did You Know That?

Most technical decisions are made by whoever has the most conviction in the room. Here's how to do better.

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// more-from-steadfast
AI That Ships
Your AI Has Feelings. It Can Also Write Kernel Exploits. That's the Same Conversation Now.
Engineering Leadership
The Boring Pattern That Made Our Deploys 10x Safer (It's Feature Flags. But Hear Me Out.)
Technical Decisions
Microservices Were Probably a Mistake for Your Company. Let's Just Say It.
AI That Ships
Agentic AI Is Going to Change Everything. We're Just Not Sure How Yet.
AI That Ships
How We Evaluate Whether AI Is the Right Solution (Before Writing a Single Line of Code)
Technical Decisions
Every Big Technical Decision You've Made in the Last Two Years Was Probably a Bet. Did You Know That?
AI That Ships
Your AI Pilot Isn't Going to Production. Here's Why.
Engineering Leadership
Your Engineering Org Doesn't Have a Talent Problem. It Has a Leadership Vacuum.
Platform Modernization
You're Not Modernizing Your Platform. You're Rewriting It in Slow Motion.
The Consulting Problem
The Consulting Model Is Broken. We're Consultants. Let's Talk About It.
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