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Code Review Fatigue and The New Seniority
AI did not remove the hard part of software engineering. It moved it from writing code to proving the code is worth trusting.
Jun 26
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Nitin Khola
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The Tidy-First Economics of the Diff
Writing code is cheap. Proving a massive AI rewrite did not break production remains wildly expensive.
Jun 18
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Nitin Khola
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Ousterhout Was Right. But the Game Has Changed.
Deep modules were a cognitive convenience for human engineers. For autonomous agents, they are a hard architectural requirement.
Jun 11
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Nitin Khola
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CLRS Is the Review Manual for Machine-Written Code
When agents write the code, the classic algorithms textbook becomes a review manual.
Jun 4
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Nitin Khola
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May 2026
The Pragmatic Programmer After the Memory Wall
What still holds when agents write code quickly, hardware punishes indirection, and cloud control planes fail at global scale.
May 28
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Nitin Khola
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SICP: An Architectural Trace of Pointer Chasing and Environment Retention on Modern Silicon
Why the elegant abstractions of classical computer science fail under the thermal and spatial constraints of 2026 microarchitectures.
May 21
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Nitin Khola
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications in 2026: An Architectural Retrospective
A definitive review of Martin Kleppmann's foundational text, updating its distributed systems theory for the modern era of NVMe storage, unified…
May 14
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Nitin Khola
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