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Posts for engineers and architects building agentic AI in production. System architecture, evaluation, reliability, cost, governance, and senior AI-engineering interview prep. Companion writing to Volume II, Designing Enterprise Agentic AI Systems.
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- May 26 2026
Agent Failure Modes Interviewers Probe: Tool Misuse, Loops, Prompt Injection
Senior interviewers do not ask how agents work. They ask how agents break. The seven failure modes that decide most agentic AI system-design rounds in 2026, the follow-up questions interviewers actually use, the structured answer template, and the two failures that get candidates rejected when missed.
· 12 min read
- May 26 2026
How to Answer "Design an Agentic System" in a System-Design Interview
A senior-friendly playbook for the agentic system-design interview in 2026: the seven-part structure interviewers want to hear, a worked example, the answers that get candidates rejected, and the 30-second version if you only have a moment.
· 12 min read
- May 26 2026
What Counts as Agentic AI, and What Does Not
Chatbots, workflows, and agentic AI are not the same thing. A working definition, the AGENT framework, the autonomy ladder, production gotchas, and a 10-question checklist you can run on Monday.
· 24 min read
- May 24 2026
Agentic AI Interview Questions: 30 Real Questions with Production Answers (2026)
Thirty interview questions you actually get when applying for a senior agentic AI engineering role in 2026. Production answers from someone who has shipped these systems, not vendor talking points.
· 18 min read
- May 24 2026
Best Agentic AI Books in 2026: An Honest Engineer's Shortlist
A short, opinionated reading list for software engineers learning agentic AI in 2026. Why so few agentic-AI-specific books exist yet, and which adjacent books actually hold up.
· 5 min read
- May 24 2026
ReAct vs Plan-and-Execute: Which Agent Pattern, and How to Explain It in an Interview
The two patterns most agentic interviews ask about. What each one actually does, when each one is right, and the hybrid most production systems end up using.
· 7 min read
- May 15 2026
GitHub Copilot in 2026: A Practical Learning Guide for Developers
A breadth with depth guide to the GitHub Copilot ecosystem in 2026: foundations, plans, assisted and agentic workflows, the CLI, MCP, enterprise governance, and what is obsolete.
· 58 min read
- Jan 23 2026
Sharing My AWS Certified Generative AI Developer (AIP-C01) Prep Notes
Architecture-focused prep notes for the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional (AIP-C01) exam: Bedrock, RAG, agents, guardrails, cost and latency, evaluation, and common exam traps.
· 55 min read