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Agents Don’t Flinch. Your App Was Built by People Who Did.
The whole agent-safety conversation is about permissions. The thing that failed was restraint.
May 23
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Badri Rajagopalan
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The AI and the Engineer Both Picked the Right Database. For a Problem You Don’t Have.
Amazon’s 2007 Dynamo paper named six use cases. Most teams have none of them. Nobody asked.
May 15
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Badri Rajagopalan
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Eighty Queries and a Four-Second Page: The Access Database Is Back
How AI coding tools eliminated the only design review most software ever got — the slowness of writing it by hand.
Apr 26
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Badri Rajagopalan
A Test Program Designed to Lose Money Ran in Production for 45 Minutes. Knight Capital Didn’t Survive It.
Dead code behind a repurposed flag, waiting for the input nobody tested. Knight Capital had one. Most codebases in 2025 carry hundreds like it.
Apr 22
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Badri Rajagopalan
The Integration Layer Is You
Why the smartest interface you’ve ever used still can’t buy you a book.
Apr 12
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Badri Rajagopalan
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When Platforms Own One Side: How Dominance Inverts Incentives — and What AI Platforms Will Do Next
Two-sided markets always turn opaque at dominance. With AI platforms, opacity won't be a choice. Neither will your relevance.
Apr 6
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Badri Rajagopalan
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The Model That Forgot What a Car Wash Is
AI models pattern-match before they reason. Your code pipeline has the same design.
Mar 29
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Badri Rajagopalan
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The Metric That Ate the System
Why the systems we build to prevent failure become the systems that guarantee it — and why the fastest organizations have the fewest failures
Mar 22
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Badri Rajagopalan
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