In the previous post, I put Squad behind a deterministic LangGraph node. That solved one problem and immediately exposed the next one. Which is how architecture usually behaves when it is trying t...

This week I had to help a Node.js team use Squad inside their app. They do not have the Microsoft Agent Framework, which is inconvenient for my C# heart but completely normal for the real world. T...

I started with the most scientific test known to software engineering: rm /mnt/c/temp/test_file.txt And it failed. Beautifully. Not “failed because I mistyped the path.” Not “failed because Li...

“The most dangerous phrase in software is: while we are in here, let’s just add one more step.” Every workflow runner, five minutes before becoming a platform Most of my Squad posts ...

“Make it work, make it right, make it fast.” — Kent Beck Beck’s three-step rule was about code quality, but it cuts even deeper when you’re wiring AI into durable workflows. The “make it work”...

“Computer, access personal logs of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.” — Every person on the Enterprise, apparently, because the ship remembers everything and nobody ever asks where that data is stored. ...

“Nine women can’t make a baby in one month.” — Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month In Part 11, I showed you how to build a Holodeck — a testing environment where AI agents play adversarial per...

“Computer, in the Holmesian style, create an adversary capable of defeating Data.” — Geordi La Forge, “Elementary, Dear Data” (TNG S2E3) “Program testing can be used to show the presence of...

My family relative makes sponge puppets. Hedgehogs, ice cream cones, crocodiles, a one-meter giant carrot — the whole kindergarten supply chain, handmade. She was born in Argentina, lives in Israe...

I’ve been circling this technology for almost a decade. Stick with me. Back in 2017, I was a Senior Architect at CodeValue, and I wrote one of the early deep-dives on Azure Durable Functions for M...