AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·3d ago · 5 min readThe Ticket Is the Contract: Specifying Work for Coding Agents🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 The ticket says, "Improve the checkout flow." A coding agent changes validation, renames a response field, adds a dependency, and redesigns the error page. Every change 00
AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·4d ago · 6 min readThe Repository Is the Prompt: Preparing a Codebase for Coding Agents🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 A coding agent opens a repository, reads three files, changes a fourth, runs the wrong test command, and announces success. The team blames the model. The repository con10
AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·Aug 18 · 17 min readOne Screen the Architect Can Defend: A Reference Architecture for the .NET Agentic Service🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 It is the architecture review the Friday before a greenfield It is the architecture review the Friday before a greenfield .NET agentic service ships. The senior architec00
AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·Aug 13 · 17 min readThe User Stopped Reading at Token Two: Streaming Chat on .NET🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 It is 23:47 on a Thursday. A senior platform engineer types why is the warehouse webhook 502-ing into the internal copilot built on top of a .NET 10 + Microsoft Agent Fra44TS
AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·Aug 11 · 16 min readTwenty Three Runs, One Restart, Zero Survivors: Hosting Long Running Agents🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 It is 09:14 on a Tuesday. A senior dev is staring at the Grafana panel for a brownfield .NET 10 worker service that runs an order investigation agent. The agent takes fo10
