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12 articlesA/B Testing AI Features When the Treatment Is Non-Deterministic
Apr 1810 min
The Cascade Problem: Why Agent Side Effects Explode at Scale
Apr 1812 min
The Agent Specification Gap: Why Your Agents Ignore What You Write
Apr 1812 min
AI as a CI/CD Gate: What Agents Can and Cannot Reliably Block
Apr 189 min
AI Coding Agents on Legacy Codebases: What Works and What Backfires
Apr 1810 min
AI Coding Agents on Legacy Codebases: Why They Fail Where You Need Them Most
Apr 189 min
AI Content Provenance in Production: C2PA, Audit Trails, and the Compliance Deadline Engineers Are Missing
Apr 1812 min
Why Users Ignore the AI Feature You Spent Three Months Building
Apr 1810 min
When Your AI Feature Ages Out: Knowledge Cutoffs and Temporal Grounding in Production
Apr 1810 min
The AI Feature Maintenance Cliff: Why Your AI-Powered Features Age Faster Than You Think
Apr 189 min
The AI Feature Retirement Playbook: How to Sunset What Users Barely Adopted
Apr 1811 min
The AI Incident Response Playbook: Diagnosing LLM Degradation in Production
Apr 1813 min
About Tian Pan
I'm Tian Pan, an engineer-founder focused on agentic engineering — building autonomous AI systems and scaling engineering teams. I write practical guides on system design, technical leadership, and shipping with AI agents. Previously an early engineer at Uber, Brex, and IoTeX.
