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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.

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Five Ways To Use AI Coding Agents to Improve Your Software Architecture

Modern architectures often use legacy services for specific tasks, but these services may lack accurate documentation and using them can be risky if you don't understand them well. AI coding agents can help close that knowledge gap.

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From Consumers to Builders: Turning 200 of our Team into Agent Creators in 2 Weeks

Ben Maraney shares how Forter demystified AI agent creation for technical and non-technical staff. He discusses leveraging custom MCP servers, combining no-code and code-based platforms, sidestepping complex RAG setups, and aligning security and legal teams to accelerate internal agent adoption across R&D.

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From Staff Platform Engineer to a 16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

Gonzalo Maldonado explains how technical leaders can translate engineering skills into startup success using his "VC Abstraction Layer Knowledge" (VALK). He shares hard-won lessons on finding product-market fit, structuring pitches like technical docs, avoiding co-founder drama, and evaluating internal platforms as commercial ventures in a post-ZIRP environment.

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Securing AI Agents: Identity, Authorization, and the DPACT Framework

In this episode, Sahil Agarwal talks about the critical challenges of identity, authorisation, and security in the age of AI agents. Agarwal introduces the DPACT framework (Delegation, Policy, Auditability, Context, and Time) as a blueprint for building responsible, guardrailed agentic systems, moving away from simple token-based access toward bounded, delegated authority.

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Scott Jenson on Evolving Desktop OS, Local-First, & Agentic UX

In this episode, Scott Jenson, a veteran UX designer known for his work on the Macintosh, Google Maps, and Chrome, examines the long-term stagnation of desktop operating systems and the limitations of current mobile and cloud-centric models.

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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

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Scott Jenson on Evolving Desktop OS, Local-First, & Agentic UX

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Radicle Discloses Critical Flaws Exposing Private Repositories in Plain Text

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