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Engineering
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Building trusted AI systems for global financial institutions.
Field notes from the team behind the Taktile platform: AI agents, infrastructure, security, and what we learn shipping them.
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Engineering·Oct 02, 2026
Taktile is a top-k contributor to
duckdb-icebergAt the DuckDB Paris Meetup, Tom Larkworthy showed how a patch we upstreamed lets DuckDB stop reading Iceberg files once a top-k query has its rows, and why there is plenty more low-hanging fruit in the extension.
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Engineering·Jul 31, 2026
How we taught our AI coworker to take no for an answer
Our AI coworker wrote 63% of the commits in his own codebase. He also spent six months learning things no benchmark measures, like what it means when a human closes your pull request. Here's the log.
[ 8 min ]Robin Raymond
FDE·Jul 30, 2026
How Forward Deployed Engineering works at Taktile, and what our team is working on.
How Forward Deployed Engineering works at Taktile, and what our team is working on.
[ 9 min ]Miroslav Kral, Hao Li, Annie Wachsmuth
Security·Jul 14, 2026
Adapting offensive security for the AI agent age
Security has been one of the biggest sources of anxiety as AI agents get smarter and more capable. Frontier labs like Anthropic have resorted to conditioning ac…
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Engineering·Jul 13, 2026
We gave our agent a memory: building an LLM Wiki over sources that never sit still
Our agent kept re-deriving the same answers from scratch, burning minutes and dollars on every question. So we gave it a persistent memory. Here's how we built it, how we tested four ways to search it, and what changed.
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Engineering·Jun 04, 2026
Your Lambda isn't leaking memory — your metrics are lying to you
How a P2 incident led us down a rabbit hole of glibc arenas, cgroup high-water marks, and the realization that none of our memory metrics meant what we thought they meant.
[ 6 min ]Robin Raymond
AI·Mar 11, 2026
From writing code to writing companies
A story about how the entire industry is going through a major upheaval right now. How we build new abstraction layers, and how each new layer collapses faster than the last.
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AI·Feb 19, 2026
It's never been more exciting to be a Builder
Software Engineering is going through major upheaval right now. Everyone is scrambling to join the agentic revolution and employ AI to get those sweet 10x productivity buffs. If this still sounds overly hype, you missed what’s been happening since ~fall 2025.
[ 4 min ]Adrian Buzgar, Robin Raymond
Community·Dec 12, 2024
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