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3 posts tagged system design interview from Building Agentic AI. Practical writing on agentic AI.
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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.
· Enterprise · 12 min read
- May 26 2026
How to Answer "Design an Agentic System" in a System-Design Interview
A playbook for the agentic system-design interview: the seven-part structure interviewers want, a worked example, and the answers that get people rejected.
· Enterprise · 12 min read
- May 22 2026
RAG vs Agents: The Interview Question Candidates Get Wrong
RAG and agents are not competing alternatives. They operate at different layers and compose. Why the question is a category error, and what agentic RAG is.
· Enterprise · 8 min read