#architecture

Sonnet + Opus advisor scores higher than Sonnet alone and costs 12% less per task. We were building this ourselves. Now we do not have to.

PANDA is a VS Code extension that reads your Copilot and Claude Code sessions, computes developer analytics, and generates narrative reports about how you actually work with AI.

The architecture is worth studying. The security model is not ready for production. Both of these things can be true.

Anthropic just published an excellent deep-dive and it crystallizes something I have been seeing across enterprise AI deployments. Prompt engineering was act one.

Individual agent intelligence matters less than seamless coordination. Three production-tested patterns for making agents work together.

When your agent workflow fails at 2 AM and you need to ship by morning, you learn fast.

When two engineers left mid-project and the datacenter contract renewal was weeks away, the right move was a container wrapper, not a rewrite.

We rewrote a service with zero documentation and passed all the tests. The tests were not enough.

When the purge backlog grew faster than we could process it, the fix was not a faster purge job. It was using the database topology we already had.

When integrating multiple encryption services across acquired brands, the answer was not more code. It was an HAProxy rule.

Tiny, non-alerting spikes in TP99 graphs led to a sharding problem that only affected our most important customers.

The team wanted to batch API calls to a Korean payment processor because that is how we did it with Chase. The abstraction was wrong.