MMMiz Mohammadinmiz-publications.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 9 min readOrchestrate the Core, Choreograph the Edges: How I Actually Choose Between the TwoAn orchestra needs a conductor; a dance troupe doesn't. Most distributed workflows need both — and the skill is knowing which part is which. There is an argument I have watched play out in design revi00
MMMiz Mohammadinmiz-publications.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 9 min readWhat Twenty Years Taught Me About Saying NoThe most senior thing an engineer does is rarely what they build. It is what they refuse to build — and the alternative they offer instead. The room wanted a yes. It was the kind of meeting where the 00
MMMiz Mohammadinmiz-publications.hashnode.dev·Jun 25 · 10 min readRAG Doesn't Hallucinate — Your Retrieval Does: Four Production AutopsiesA confident wrong answer is almost never a model failure. It is a retrieval, grounding, or measurement failure wearing the model's voice. The demo was flawless. A small group is gathered around a lapt00
MMMiz Mohammadinmiz-publications.hashnode.dev·Jun 24 · 11 min readPropose Anything, Execute Almost Nothing: How to Let AI Agents Act on Systems of RecordAn agent should be free to suggest wiring forty thousand dollars — and structurally incapable of actually doing it without a human in the loop. Here is a true-to-life sequence that should frighten any00
MMMiz Mohammadinmiz-publications.hashnode.dev·Jun 23 · 9 min readStrangle the Monolith, Don't Rewrite It: Modernizing a Mission-Critical Payments Core Without a Big-BangA system of record is not rewritten. It is starved — one endpoint, one reconciliation, one reversible increment at a time. The most expensive sentence in enterprise software is spoken with great confi00
