Building Your First Autonomous Coding Agent: A Practical Guide
A step-by-step look at what actually goes into an agent that can plan, write, run and fix its own code, and the guardrails that keep it from going rogue.
Rhea Kapoor · 9 min readRead
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What “Context Window” Actually Means (and Why It Keeps Growing)
Context windows went from 4K tokens to over a million in a few years. Here’s what the number really controls, and where more isn’t always better.
Dev Sharma · 6 min readRead
Agentic AI, Explained: What Actually Makes a System an “Agent”
Not every chatbot with a tool is an agent. We break down the loop of planning, acting and observing that separates true agents from scripted automations.
Rhea Kapoor · 7 min readRead
RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Picking the Right Tool for Your AI Feature
Two ways to make a model “know” your data, with very different costs and failure modes. A framework for deciding which one your feature actually needs.
Marcus Ferreira · 8 min readRead
Five New AI Terms Developers Keep Mishearing in Standups
Temperature, guardrails, few-shot, hallucination and MCP, quick, precise definitions for the words getting thrown around in every planning meeting.
Dev Sharma · 5 min readRead
The Developer Tools We’re Actually Reaching for in 2026
No sponsored placements, just the editors, CLIs and debuggers our own engineering team installs first on a fresh machine.
Aanya Verma · 7 min readRead
Small Models, Big Results: The Case for On-Device AI in 2026
You don’t always need a frontier model. A look at when a small, local model beats a large API call on latency, cost and privacy.
Dev Sharma · 6 min readRead
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