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Brad's Blog
Brad's BlogMar 16, 2026
If You're Cold, They're Cold
Platform engineering isn't just for large organizations. CNCF tooling makes it accessible, agents make it practical, and the distributed systems problems it solves don't care how big your team is.
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Brad's Blog
Brad's BlogMar 14, 2026
The Organism
Building fast is the easy part. The hard part — the part nobody's figured out yet — is using agents to operate the business, not just build the product.
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Brad's Blog
Brad's BlogMar 13, 2026
You Get What You Spec
Everything built and passed tests in isolation. Then I deployed to Kubernetes and it didn't line up. The agents amplify your specs faithfully — blind spots and all.
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Brad's Blog
Brad's BlogMar 12, 2026
The Job Is the Spec
I stopped writing code and started writing specs. The cache ratio proves why — implementation sessions read 14,128 cached tokens for every 1 new token of input.
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Brad's Blog
Brad's BlogMar 11, 2026
The Context Window Made Me a Better Engineer
The context window isn't a limitation — it's the forcing function that drives good decomposition. The same principle as Unix philosophy, applied to the act of building.
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Brad's Blog
Brad's BlogMar 10, 2026
D'ya Like DAGs?
866 commits. 14 repos. Evenings and weekends. One person with a day job. Here's what happened when I stopped fighting the context window and started designing for it.
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