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September 9, 2026
Redis 8: Cache, Vector Search, and Semantic Caching
Redis stopped being just a cache. Redis 8 folded the Query Engine into core, shipped a native vector data type, and Redis Cloud added a managed semantic cache. This post maps all three layers to the exact version that supports them, with the caveats nobody puts in the marketing page.
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August 26, 2026
The Billable Hour Is Dead — AI Unbundled India's $315B IT Industry
TCS runs 80% of its business-services contracts on outcomes, five-year deal values shrank up to 35%, and a 500-person migration now prices at 50 people. The hourly billing model isn't being discounted — it's being taken apart layer by layer.
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August 24, 2026
AI Agents: A Practical Guide to Autonomous Systems
Explore the core components of AI agents, avoid common pitfalls, and implement a reliable system using proven patterns.
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August 20, 2026
The Agentic Loop: When AI Should Think, Act, and Loop
Every AI system you rely on — scripts, watchdogs, coding agents, Grok bots — runs the same core loop: observe, decide, act, verify. This post breaks down that loop, the two ways to put a human around it, and a practical framework for deciding when an agentic loop earns its cost and when a plain script wins.
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August 19, 2026
The AI Employee Era: Build Your Own AI Team
A practical roundup of this week's biggest AI moves — from AI bots that act like real teammates to coding models that undercut the leaders — plus a step-by-step guide to building your own AI employee in minutes.
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June 17, 2026
Why AI Hasn't Replaced Engineers — And Won't Anytime Soon
AI writes most of the code now, layoffs are running at over 1,000 a day, and execs are saying they hired zero new engineers this year. Yet companies are quietly rehiring the same people they let go, agents that score 80% on SWE-bench drop to 12% on real industrial tasks, and the scarce resource has shifted from typing to judgment. This is a data-backed breakdown of why the discipline survives even as the job changes.
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April 2, 2026
Claude Code Best Practices: 10 Things Every Developer Should Know
Most developers fire up Claude Code, ask it to write some code, and call it a day. But the teams getting 10x results are doing things very differently. This post breaks down how Claude Code actually works under the hood, the best use cases, and 10 battle-tested practices straight from the people who build it.
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November 5, 2025
TOON vs JSON: Supercharge Your LLM Prompts & Cut Token Costs
Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) is a compact, LLM-optimized alternative to JSON for serializing structured, mostly flat/tabular data. By removing repeated field names, quotes and redundant punctuation, TOON reduces token usage by roughly 30–60% in real-world AI workflows, leading to lower API bills, larger usable context windows, and often better model retrieval accuracy.
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