Blog
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12 articlesTool Output Compression: The Injection Decision That Shapes Context Quality
Apr 1910 min
Upstream Data Quality Is Your AI Agent's Real Bottleneck
Apr 199 min
What Your Vendor's Model Card Doesn't Tell You
Apr 1910 min
Vibe Code at Scale: Managing Technical Debt When AI Writes Most of Your Codebase
Apr 199 min
The Vibe Coding Productivity Plateau: Why AI Speed Gains Reverse After Month Three
Apr 198 min
When Workflow Engines Beat LLM Agents: A Decision Framework for Deterministic Orchestration
Apr 199 min
A/B Testing AI Features When the Treatment Is Non-Deterministic
Apr 1810 min
Agent Protocol Fragmentation: Designing for A2A, MCP, and What Comes Next
Apr 189 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
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.
