Engineering Notes: AI Agents in Production

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Business

The end of clicking: what the next year of software looks like

Software today is inputs and outputs: forms, tables, charts, and a person typing into them. The next step is that the AI does the filling and the person guides, checks and stays responsible. I already run our blog, website content and backlog this way.

Mark Podliashetskyi Nov 03, 2026 · 6 min read

BusinessSaaSAIMCP

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Business

Smart Buildings for Business: What Could Your Warehouse Save?

A practical introduction to warehouse temperature monitoring, equipment visibility and energy controls—with research-backed savings figures and an illustrative payback calculation.

Orest Boichuk Oct 29, 2026 · 7 min read

BusinessDevelopment

A project manager reviewing a client project brief and a structured project scope on a laptop, with planning notes on a desk.

Business

From an Upwork brief to a clear scope: what we clarify before estimating

How we turn an Upwork brief into a scope the client and engineering team can estimate: goals, existing systems, first-release boundaries, dependencies and acceptance criteria.

Andrii Melekh Oct 29, 2026 · 5 min read

BusinessDevelopment

Photorealistic AI inference workstation with AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPU and local vLLM performance benchmarks on a monitor

Development

2.7× faster local LLM on one AMD GPU: three vLLM fixes, an overnight AI agent, and what we sent upstream

We run a 35B open model on a single AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700. Three problems kept it slow. An AI agent found the fixes, tuned the GPU overnight and prepared upstream pull requests, with a person approving every public step. Result: 2.7× more tokens per second, same accuracy.

Oleksandr Dubyna Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min read

DevelopmentArchitecture

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Business

We connected ChatGPT and Claude to our website - and kept the publish button for people

How a non-technical CEO took an AI connector live on the company website in two days - four AI apps, drafts only, and nothing the AI can delete.

Mark Podliashetskyi Oct 26, 2026 · 5 min read

BusinessDevelopment

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Development

The guardrails we put on AI coding agents, and the incident that taught us

A CEO's first-hand account of the guardrails written for AI coding agents after one deleted a development database, and how they reached the development team.

Mark Podliashetskyi Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read

DevelopmentBusiness

Two monitors at night: a website design on the left, its sections linked by glowing lines to task cards on the right, an approval stamp on the desk

Development

From Figma to a full Azure DevOps backlog - with a human approving every page

How an AI agent turned our website's Figma design into Azure DevOps epics, stories and tasks, page by page, with human approval at every step.

Mark Podliashetskyi Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read

ADODevelopment

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Business

I'm not a developer. Our payroll system went live two weeks after I approved the spec

How a CEO used AI coding agents to replace a 3-4 hour monthly payroll run with a 15-20 minute one - and what made it safe to trust.

Mark Podliashetskyi Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read

BusinessDevelopment