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The Shadow Backlog: How Agentic Code Generation Overwhelms System Architecture TLDR: Agentic codegen makes generating a microservice a one-day event and designing one a one-quarter argument. Code vel

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Engineering leader with 25 years building CI/CD platforms, developer experience tooling, and cloud infrastructure at Warner Bros. Discovery, Microsoft, and Nordstrom. Currently building production-grade AI agent systems — circuit breakers, model routing, cost boundaries, and reliability patterns for LLM agent loops. Author of ai-loopguard, an open-source circuit breaker for agent loops.

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