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Featured · Sep 23, 2026
N8n: The Workflow Automation Platform That's Quietly Becoming Enterprise AI's Backbone
I've spent the last few months digging into the workflow automation space, trying to answer a question that keeps coming up in conversations with engineering leaders: "Should we be using an AI agent f…
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The AI-Native SDLC: How AI Is Rewriting Every Phase of Software Development
In 2024, I watched a junior engineer on my team ship a feature in two hours that would have taken me a full day in 2022. They weren't faster typists. They were working with an AI coding agent that dra…
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The $4.4M Question: Why Technical PMs Can't Afford to Skip AI Governance
Last quarter, I watched an AI feature I'd been championing get pulled from our roadmap three weeks before launch. The model worked. The accuracy was solid. The integration was clean. What killed it? W…
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The Web Developer's Guide to MCP: Connecting LLMs to Browser Tools & APIs
By Mukund Murali · September 2026 --- If you've built web applications for any length of time, you know the pain of integrations. Every third-party API has its own auth flow, its own SDK, its own qu…
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Agent Harness: The Missing Layer Between Your AI Agent and Production
Hero image — engineering control room with monitoring screens(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1558494949-ef010cbdcc31?w=1200) Photo by Taylor Vick(https://unsplash.com/@tvick) on Unsplash(https://un…
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The AGI Era Compute Buildout — Why Infrastructure Is Becoming the Real Bottleneck for Frontier AI Models
Data center server racks — the physical backbone of AI(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1558494949-ef010cbdcc31?w=1200&q=80) Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash(https://unsplash.com/photos/FO7JIlwjOtU) …
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MCP vs RAG vs Fine-Tuning: How to Actually Choose
A few months ago I watched a team spend three weeks fine-tuning a model so their assistant could answer questions about their product catalog. The day they shipped it, the catalog changed. The model w…
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Leo: My Personal AI Assistant and Second Brain
I don't manage Leo. Leo manages things for me. --- There's a version of AI that feels like magic, and a version that feels like homework. The homework version is familiar: open a new chat, re-expla…
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Context Engineering — The Skill That Separates Good AI Users from Great Ones
The skill that separates people who get great results from AI — from those who don't. --- There's a common misconception about why some people get brilliant results from AI tools like Claude or Chat…
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Interfacing AI: Deciding Between MCP and CLI in Agentic Workflows
As we transition from simple "Chatbots" to autonomous "Agents," the most critical design decision isn't which LLM to use—it's how the agent interacts with the world. For decades, the industry default…
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Building a Second Brain with Claude + Obsidian: The Ultimate Guide to Compounding Knowledge
AI Second Brain Hero(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1719550371336-7bb64b5cacfa?fm=jpg&q=80&w=2000&auto=format&fit=crop) Imagine a world where you never "forget" a great podcast, a crucial insight …
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How to Build a Private, Agentic Workflow with Claude Code and Ollama
In the hyper-accelerated world of AI-assisted engineering, developers face a critical dilemma: intelligence vs. privacy. How do you leverage the elite reasoning of flagship models like Claude without …
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🧠 Build a No-Code OCR App Using OCI Generative AI and Streamlit
(https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1747195276283/b39d59c0-4a4b-4b41-b1d5-33ec53f65fce.png align="center") 👋 Introduction If you're a developer, cloud architect, or AI enthusiast wh…
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Unlocking AI Potential: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) Revolution
Model context protocol (MCP) It is a protocol that allows LLMs to access custom tools and services. If your LLM wants to talk to an agent for a specific task then with MCP it is easy to integr…
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How to Create a Smart Research Assistant Using OCI AI Agents
(https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1741091443260/3e9dfd3b-b2bc-4080-87d3-d5336c46c53e.png align="center") In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, artificial intelligenc…
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Exploring Your Cloud with Steampipe and Powerpipe: An Overview with OCI Focus
(https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1731208583927/a95dc693-a9c9-4d39-81fd-20e817690b19.png align="center") This blog post explores Steampipe and Powerpipe, powerful tools for gainin…
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Google's NotebookLM: A Second Brain for the AI Age
What is NotebookLM? NotebookLM is an AI-powered research tool developed by Google, designed to function as a personalized knowledge base powered by AI. Features and Capabilities: Source Grounded AI…
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Inbound NAT with Palo Alto in OCI
This topic is with reference in accessing private resources like Load balancer through the untrust Vnic of NVA like Palo Alto. This is a general scenario when we have a firewall like Palo Alto inside …
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Prompt Engineering 101 - Getting Started
We already know what ChatGPT or Google's Bard is and how it helps us. In a nutshell, we give an input to these AI models and it gives us an corresponding output. This output can be relatively correct …
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