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12 articlesAgentic Task Complexity Estimation: Budget Tokens Before You Execute
Apr 1510 min
When Your AI Agent Consumes from Kafka: The Design Assumptions That Break
Apr 1511 min
AI-Assisted Incident Response: How LLMs Change the SRE Playbook Without Replacing It
Apr 1511 min
The AI Capability Ratchet: How One Smart Feature Breaks Your Entire Product
Apr 1510 min
The AI Dependency Footprint: When Every Feature Adds a New Infrastructure Owner
Apr 159 min
AI Feature Decommissioning Forensics: What Dead Features Teach That Successful Ones Cannot
Apr 1510 min
The AI Incident Severity Taxonomy: When Is a Hallucination a Sev-0?
Apr 1511 min
AI On-Call Psychology: Rebuilding Operator Intuition for Non-Deterministic Alerts
Apr 1511 min
AI Product Metrics That Don't Lie: Behavioral Signals Over Thumbs-Up Scores
Apr 159 min
The AI Reliability Floor: Why 80% Accurate Is Worse Than No AI at All
Apr 159 min
The AI Procurement Gap: Why Your Vendor Evaluation Process Can't Handle Probabilistic Systems
Apr 1511 min
Stop Writing Prompts by Hand: Automated Optimization with DSPy and MIPRO
Apr 159 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.
