Vendredi matin, 9 h 15. Françoise est dans son cockpit — trois écrans, à gauche l'Excel-pointeuse qu'elle tient à jour depuis quinze ans, à droite Sage, et au milieu Rembrandt depuis trois semaines. Sa tasse à la main, celle avec sa tête imprimée dessus que quelqu'un lui a offerte à Noël. Elle pivote sur sa chaise et me lance depuis son bureau : « Michel, combien on a d'inscrits pour la rentrée, d
« Hold on, we need to talk, this doesn't add up » Friday morning, 9:15 AM. Françoise is in her cockpit — three screens: on the left the Excel attendance sheet she's kept up to date for fifteen years, on the right Sage, and in the middle Rembrandt for three weeks now. Cup in hand, the one with her face printed on it that someone gave her at Christmas. She swivels in her chair and calls over from
Practical post for engineers who've hit the wall where an AI proof-of-concept works on clean data but can't connect to the legacy systems that hold actual production data. Disclosure: I work at Ailoitte, which builds AI integration layers connecting legacy infrastructure to production AI. Sharing what the engineering actually looks like. AI models expect structured, consistently formatted data. Le
You write a detailed design doc. You paste it into your AI assistant. You wait. The output compiles. Tests pass. And yet — it's not quite what you designed. The auth middleware is in the wrong layer. The error handling pattern differs from the rest of the codebase. The field names don't match the schema. You fix it. Next task, same thing. This happens constantly, and it's not a model capability pr
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I’ve been diving into Solana development for the past 10+ days as part of 100DaysOfSolana. Today, I successfully moved my scripts into the browser to build a functional Devnet Dashboard. It was a great exercise in handling RPC providers and managing BigInt data for UI display. Major shoutout to Major League Hacking for the challenge. Looking forward to the next arc!
We’ve all built "perfect" systems, only for a single overlooked detail to turn into a production nightmare. I’ve spent my career building, breaking, and fixing things. I’m starting this space to share those experiences, because I believe the best way to master a concept is to learn from mistakes. I’ll be focusing on three main series: 1. War Stories 2. Under the Hood 3. General Tech Discussions I’
“Distributed systems” is a commonly used concept today. Perhaps the first time you read it it sounds daunting, and while there are plenty of challenges, the concept itself is simple and it might even give you more clarity when it comes to building this kind of system. Let’s start from… the beginning. When software went from being a possibility to being a reality (a virtual one, of course), things