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Ivan's Inferences #3

Coding While You Sleep: Lessons from Building an AI-Native Engineering Team

Max Heckel
10 min read

Coding agents aren’t going to steal your job—but engineers who learn how to work with them will absolutely outpace those who don’t. At our company, we don’t treat AI as a novelty or a replacement for thinking. We treat it like a junior engineering team that never sleeps. Every night, we hand off a list of tasks to our coding agents. By morning, we’re staring at a stack of pull requests—some useful, some disposable, all cheap to generate.

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Ivan's Inferences #2

Adopting LangChain's Middleware API

Shawn Zhu
8 min read

Move beyond simple tool-calling agents. LangChain's middleware API lets you inject user preferences before model calls and orchestrate complex workflows after tool execution—turning brittle super-tools into composable, testable layers.

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Ivan's Inferences #1

Secret Messages for LLMs

Max Heckel
7 min read

Hidden context messages keep user-facing LLM chats clean while giving the model rich, per-message instructions—turning conversations into a predictable, tool‑driven workflow engine with a tiny amount of code.

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