The Ticket Is the Contract: Specifying Work for Coding Agents
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The Repository Is the Prompt: Preparing a Codebase for Coding Agents
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One Screen the Architect Can Defend: A Reference Architecture for the .NET Agentic Service
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The User Stopped Reading at Token Two: Streaming Chat on .NET
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Twenty Three Runs, One Restart, Zero Survivors: Hosting Long Running Agents
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Structured Outputs in C# — Schema, Records, and the End of String-Parsing
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The Substrate That Wins by Being Boring: Microsoft.Extensions.AI as the Unified Client Layer
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The Framework Died, the Architecture Lived: From Semantic Kernel to the Microsoft Agent Framework
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The Invoice Was the Only Alert That Fired: Cost Guardrails for LLM Systems
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Everything Is Green and the CEO Is Furious: Incident Response When the Model Is the Bug
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The Better Model Broke Production: Rolling Out a New Model Safely
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The Behaviour Was the Bug: Observability for Systems Where Stack Traces Don't Help
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The Diff Was Empty: Treating Prompts as Code and Models as Dependencies
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Your Eval Lied: The Architecture of a Real LLM Evaluation Program
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The Agent Reasons, the Engine Remembers: Designing an Agentic Workflow Engine
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Nothing Scales the Way You Think: Designing an LLM Inference Platform
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The Intern with a Refund Button: Designing a Customer Support Agent at Scale
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The Retriever Is Your Security Perimeter: Designing a Multi Tenant RAG Knowledge Base
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Faster Than the Fingers: Designing a Real Time Coding Assistant
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Designing AI Search: The Answer Layer and the Iceberg Beneath It
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More Agents, More Problems
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Your Agent Has a Spending Problem
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In Probabilistic Systems, You Watch the Shape of Success
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Reasoning Is Cheap, Side Effects Are Forever
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Architecting Agent Memory: A Distributed Systems Perspective
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