Product Thinking & Engineering

A curated feed of Industry Shifts, Engineering Deep Dives, and Research Frontiers.

Research
2026-01-26

Beyond the Black Box: Why Agentic Systems Must Cache Reasoning

A breakdown of the SemanticALLI research and how caching intermediate logic yields an 83% efficiency boost in AI pipelines.

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Research
2026-01-25

Efficiency Over Scale: Why Model Decomposition is the Next Strategic Moat

Analysis of Google DeepMind’s research on achieving superior intent extraction by breaking complex tasks into smaller, specialized models.

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Research
2026-01-24

The Efficiency Paradox: Why Small Models are Overtaking Giants in Intent Extraction

Google DeepMind's research on intent decomposition proves that architectural strategy beats raw parameter count for enterprise-grade AI.

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Engineering
2026-01-23

Blackwell in the Cloud: Optimizing the Inference Cost-Curve

An engineering analysis of the new AWS G7e instances and what they mean for scalable AI deployment.

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Engineering
2026-01-22

Securing the Model Context: Authentication in the Age of Agents

A deep dive into the security architecture of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and why authorization is the missing link in AI orchestration.

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Engineering
2026-01-22

The Blackwell Shift: Decoding the Engineering ROI of AWS G7e Instances

A strategic look at the NVIDIA Blackwell-powered G7e instances and what 2.3x inference performance means for system design.

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Engineering
2026-01-21

Hardware-Led ROI: Decoding the AWS G7e Blackwell Instances

An analysis of how NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture in the new G7e instances shifts the trade-offs between inference cost and throughput.

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Engineering
2026-01-21

The Architectural Debt of 'Easy' Backends

Why AI-generated code and universal interfaces require more, not less, architectural discipline.

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Engineering
2026-01-20

Beyond the Black Friday Myth: Architecture Lessons from AWS

Analyzing the engineering primitives behind SQS and DynamoDB and why operational autonomy is the next frontier.

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Engineering
2026-01-20

The Architecture of Balance: Why Your Frontend Can't Cache Your Backend’s Ambition

Analyzing the friction between powerful backends and frontend performance in the age of AI-generated code.

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Engineering
2026-01-19

Beyond Data Residency: Engineering the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

An architectural deep dive into how AWS decoupled its global control plane to meet the rigorous demands of EU digital sovereignty.

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Engineering
2026-01-19

Beyond the Myth: Engineering Lessons from the Foundations of AWS

Debunking the 'excess capacity' myth and analyzing the architectural shift toward decoupling and primitive building blocks.

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Engineering
2026-01-18

Beyond Latency: The Engineering of Digital Sovereignty

Analyzing the architecture behind the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and why physical isolation is the new standard for regulated system design.

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Engineering
2026-01-18

Deconstructing the AWS Origin Myth: Engineering for Radical Scale

Moving past the 'excess capacity' myth to understand how SQS and DynamoDB redefined infrastructure through decoupling and distributed systems.

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Engineering
2026-01-17

Hard Isolation: My Take on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

An engineering analysis of how AWS is decoupling its control plane to meet European digital sovereignty requirements.

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Engineering
2026-01-17

The Engineering DNA of Scale: Unpacking AWS’s Architectural Roots

A deep dive into the evolution of SQS, DynamoDB, and why the 'Black Friday' myth simplifies the real engineering challenges AWS solved.

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Research
2026-01-16

GUI-Eyes: Why Active Perception is the Next Milestone for AI Agents

A deconstruction of the GUI-Eyes research: how tool-augmented perception and staged RL are solving the 'pixel-hunting' problem in GUI automation.

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Engineering
2026-01-16

Sovereignty as a System Design Constraint: AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Analyzing the engineering trade-offs of AWS's move to isolate infrastructure for European digital sovereignty.

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Engineering
2026-01-15

Moving Beyond AI Vibes: An Engineering Post-Mortem

Why 85% of enterprise AI projects fail—and how to engineer your way out of PoC Purgatory.

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Research
2026-01-15

Precision Over Hype: DeepMind’s MedGemma and the End of Generalist Med-AI

A deep dive into MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR—why domain-specific fine-tuning is the only path forward for high-stakes engineering.

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Research
2026-01-14

Beyond Scripts: How Executable Ontologies Fix the Semantic-Process Gap

A shift from hard-coded behavior trees to emergent agent logic using the boldsea framework.

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Research
2026-01-14

Vertical AI: Why MedGemma 1.5 is a Blueprint for Specialized Intelligence

Deconstructing Google DeepMind’s latest medical models and the strategic shift from generic to domain-specific AI.

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Research
2026-01-13

Hybrid Climate Intelligence: Why DeepMind’s NeuralGCM Wins on Efficiency

Deconstructing Google DeepMind's hybrid physical-neural approach to global precipitation modeling.

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Engineering
2026-01-13

The Industrial Age of AI: Scaling Beyond the Notebook

Why the AI Engineering Lead of 2026 is a systems architect, not a prompt wizard. Moving from demos to production-grade reliability.

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Research
2026-01-12

Agentic Architectures in EO: Deconstructing the Naiad Framework

A look at how agentic LLMs are moving beyond chatbots to orchestrate complex Earth Observation workflows.

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Engineering
2026-01-12

Beyond the Magic Show: The Industrialization of AI Engineering

Why the AI Engineering Lead of 2026 is a systems architect, not a prompt wizard, and how to bridge the demo-to-production gap.

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Research
2026-01-08

The Future of Product Strategy is AI-Native

How generative AI is reshaping the role of Product Managers from feature-shippers to system-architects.

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Engineering
2026-01-07

Scaling Systems: When Database Queries Become Bottlenecks

A deep dive into optimizing SQL queries for high-throughput applications.

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Strategy
2026-01-06

Data-Driven Decisions: Beyond Vanity Metrics

Why tracking 'Total Users' is misleading and how to focus on 'Active Retention'.

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