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Multi-Agent Software Development: From Solo Agents to AI Engineering Teams

Sixteen AI agents wrote a 100,000-line C compiler in Rust. Then a benchmark revealed that agents are 50% worse at collaborating than working alone. Welcome to the messy, fascinating frontier of multi-agent development.
Knowledge graphs as memory
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Knowledge Graphs as Memory: Why Your AI Agent Needs to Think in Relationships

RAG gave agents access to documents. Knowledge graphs might give them something more valuable: understanding.
From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
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From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: The Evolution of AI-Assisted Development

One year after Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding," he declared the era over. What does "agentic engineering" mean for software teams?

Iterative AI
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Iterative AI: Learning to Fail Fast with Intelligence

You can’t predict how your AI will behave in production. So stop trying. Start learning instead.

The Third Pillar of AI Development
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CI/CD/CE: The Third Pillar of AI Development

Your deployment pipeline is green. Your model is live. And somewhere in production, it’s quietly failing.
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Navigating AI with a Fractional CAIO: Key Moments to Bring in Specialised Guidance

Most AI projects fail not because the tech isn’t capable, but because businesses jump in without a clear strategy. A Fractional CAIO brings the structure, oversight, and specialised guidance needed to turn AI from an experiment into measurable business value.
Unpredictable AI

Testing the Untestable: Strategies for Non-Deterministic Systems

Your test suite assumes predictable outputs. Your AI doesn’t. Now what?
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Writing User Stories for Uncertain Systems

When your AI feature might behave differently every time, how do you even specify what “working” means?
fundamentals first, AI second

Fundamentals First, AI Second

We’re building with AI, and building AI into our products. But have we forgotten the fundamentals that make software actually work?
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AI in Healthcare

In this article, Octoco AI Co-Founder and CEO Nolan van Heerden explores how artificial intelligence evolved from early expert systems to today’s generative models, what its rapid adoption means for healthcare professionals, and where the biggest opportunities and risks lie.