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60 articles on Custom Software Development from the Creuto engineering and product team: practical guides, trends, and lessons from building real software.
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AI agent state between turns: what does not carry over
Many failures that look like the model forgetting are environment failures. Separating model context, process state and the filesystem makes them diagnosable in about a minute.
Nihar Ranjan Rout
Sep 14, 2026
Workflow orchestration at scale: what Netflix deleted
Conductor 4.0 separates workflow metadata from execution data, taking maximum workflow size from 2,500 tasks to 30,000 and p99 latency down 40%. Two of the ideas behind it work at a thousandth of the scale.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 12, 2026
Batch processing memory optimisation: 500 files to 50,000
A pipeline that handled hundreds of documents a day started failing with MemoryError as volume grew, with no code change at all. Three causes, four ordinary fixes, and the property worth designing for.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 12, 2026
Type aware linting typescript projects, 12x faster
tsgolint reached stable v7 covering 59 of typescript-eslint's 61 type-aware rules, benchmarking 12 to 18 times faster than ESLint. The constraints will decide it for most teams before the benchmarks do.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 12, 2026
Cloudflare Workers production issues worth learning early
A developer shipped a paid image product on Cloudflare Workers and documented every failure. Four of the nine transfer to any stack, and the most expensive was choosing the wrong identifier for an idempotency key.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 12, 2026
Enterprise AI agent governance before the vendors ship
Salesforce's Trusted Enterprise AI Harness names the right problem and schedules the answer for early FY28. Four of the five controls that matter need no vendor at all, and they are all available this quarter.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 11, 2026
AI engineering roles: the ones nobody can name yet
AI was supposed to turn engineers into generalists. An analysis of 47,101 Fortune 500 job postings found the opposite, and found thousands of companies advertising the same role without a name for it.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 11, 2026
GPTBot OAI-SearchBot robots txt: what each bot controls
OpenAI's four crawlers take independent robots.txt settings, and the one governing ChatGPT search visibility is not the one most sites blocked. Here is how to check yours, including what we found on our own.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 11, 2026
The ERP implementation failure rate nobody can source
One source gives 68% to two significant figures. Another gives a range twenty-five points wide and explains why a single number would mislead. Only one of them fits on a slide.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 10, 2026
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