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Death by a Thousand Handshakes
Why persistent connections are the future of AI agent infrastructure, and how one protocol change cuts agent latency in half.
Faizan Ahmed
March 9, 2026
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Faizan Ahmed
True Alpha Lives in the Agent Harness
Everyone is optimizing the model. True alpha lives in the harness: the infrastructure that wraps the LLM and makes it actually work.
March 3, 2026
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1 year in ai is 7 on the internet.
what i learned from visiting stanford, harvard, cmu, waterloo, toronto and talking to hundreds of cs students
February 7, 2026
Faizan Ahmed
The Last Line of Code
Why the future of engineering is about orchestrating agents, and why understanding systems has never mattered more
February 7, 2026
Faizan Ahmed
Prompts Are the New Architecture Decisions
The 5-step framework for shipping production code with AI agents: context, constraints, code review, iteration, and CI
February 6, 2026