Next.js · Postgres · pg_notify Next.js Worker Split with pg_notify: How We Made an Analyzer Survive Redeploys Our Next.js app held in-flight analysis jobs in a process-memory Map, so every redeploy killed live runs with a sources_unavailable 409. Splitting the pipeline into a Bun worker over pg_notify — with advisory locks around boot DDL and a Postgres-backed source cache — ended the class of bug without adding a second replica.
2026-07-13 · 9 min read Anthropic · Claude Sonnet 5 · AI Agents Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here: What Anthropic's Cheaper, More Agentic Model Means for Swiss SMEs Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, closing most of the gap to flagship Opus 4.8 while cutting API prices by 40-60%. Here is what the new default Claude model changes for enterprise AI agents, and what SMEs should actually do about it.
2026-07-02 · 7 min read PostHog · Next.js · Telemetry NODE_ENV Is Not Production: How One Env Var Polluted Our PostHog Funnel Our analytics dev-disable guard keyed on NODE_ENV, so a prod-built Docker image running on a dev tier silently fired 530 events into the production PostHog project over 90 days. The fix was a hostname gate, not a bigger env-var matrix.
2026-06-29 · 8 min read Anthropic · AlphaFold · AI Science Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic: What It Means for AI in Science John Jumper, 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate and co-creator of AlphaFold, has left Google DeepMind after nine years to join Anthropic. It is the most significant talent move in AI history — and a clear signal about where the next wave of AI value is being built.
2026-06-25 · 8 min read Acurio · citecheck · Open Source From Idea to Product: How We Built Acurio and citecheck The build story behind Acurio and citecheck — two Swiss tools that verify academic citations with evidence, not unreliable AI detectors. An honest practitioner's account from idea to shipped product.
2026-06-24 · 7 min read Context Engineering · Prompt Engineering · LLM Context Engineering: Why Prompt Engineering Is No Longer Enough for Enterprise AI Prompt engineering is a writing skill. Context engineering is an infrastructure discipline. Here is why the shift matters — and how enterprise teams are restructuring their AI pipelines around it in 2026.
2026-06-19 · 11 min read AI Regulation · AI Governance · US AI Policy The Great American AI Act: What US Federal AI Regulation Means for Every Business The US Congress just unveiled a 269-page federal AI bill that would override all state AI laws for three years. Here is what the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act actually proposes — and what it signals for businesses navigating the global AI compliance landscape.
2026-06-18 · 8 min read Next.js · React · TanStack Query useQuery vs useEffect: Refactoring a Next.js Dashboard from Fetch Hooks to TanStack Query A Next.js dashboard built on useState + useEffect + fetch turned into a tangle of races, dead loaders, and stale lists. Migrating to TanStack Query collapsed 100 lines of state plumbing into one useQuery — and fixed the bugs we kept patching.
2026-06-15 · 10 min read AI Agents · Enterprise AI · Production Deployment Why 95% of Enterprise AI Agents Fail to Reach Production Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will include AI agents by end of 2026. Roughly 95% of agent prototypes never reach production. Here is what separates the two groups — and the architecture patterns that actually ship.
2026-06-12 · 9 min read AI Strategy · Apple · iOS 27 Apple WWDC 2026: iOS 27 Extensions End Single-AI Lock-In — What Swiss Businesses Need to Know Apple's WWDC 2026 introduced iOS 27 Extensions, letting iPhone users set Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini as their default AI. Here's what the new multi-AI paradigm means for Swiss businesses — and why the EU exclusion matters.
2026-06-11 · 8 min read ChatGPT · OpenAI · AI Adoption ChatGPT Hits 1 Billion Users: What It Really Means for Your Business ChatGPT just became the fastest app in history to reach 1 billion monthly active users. Here's what that milestone signals — and what it means for Swiss businesses that are still weighing when to act.
2026-06-11 · 7 min read LLM · JSON · Vertex AI LLM Truncated JSON: The finish_reason Gotcha That Bridges OpenAI and Vertex An LLM truncated JSON response surfaced a cryptic Unterminated string error in production. The fix wasn't bigger max_tokens — it was a finish_reason guard that handles OpenAI's length and Vertex/Gemini's MAX_TOKENS in the same code path.
2026-06-08 · 8 min read AI Agents · Swiss SME · AI Strategy Why AI Agent Pilots Stall in Switzerland — and the Four Decisions That Determine Whether They Scale Fewer than 1 in 4 organisations experimenting with AI agents have scaled one to production. The gap isn't technical. It's four architectural decisions made in the pilot phase that are expensive to undo later.
2026-06-05 · 7 min read AI Agents · Next.js · Approval Gates AI Agent Approval Gates in Next.js: Building a Multi-Step Agent Loop That Knows When to Stop How we built AI agent approval gates into a Next.js app — a real iterative agent loop that autonomously drives multi-step operations but cleanly pauses for human approval on destructive actions.
2026-05-25 · 9 min read FastAPI · slowapi · Rate Limiting FastAPI Rate Limit Headers: The Slowapi Response Parameter Gotcha A FastAPI rate limit headers bug took down rate-limited POST endpoints with 500s. Here's what slowapi's _inject_headers actually requires — and the one-line fix per endpoint.
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AI Citation Verification
AI Citation Verification · Zotero · Academic Research AI Citation Verification for Researchers: How to Catch Hallucinated Sources Before Your Reviewer Does Why AI-drafted papers are leaking fake citations into peer review — and a practical Zotero-based workflow to verify every reference in minutes, not hours.
2026-05-11 · 7 min read AI Agents · Security · SME AI Agent Security for SMEs: What Mythos Means for You AI agent security got real: Claude Mythos found thousands of zero-days in decades-old code. Here's the vault-first playbook for SMEs deploying AI agents.
2026-04-09 · 16 min read Claude Advisor Strategy · LLM Advisor Pattern · AI Agent Cost Optimization The Claude Advisor Strategy: What Practitioners Learned Anthropic just named the advisor strategy: cheap executor, smart advisor. Here's how it works, the cross-vendor version, and when not to use it.
2026-04-09 · 12 min read AI Agents · Security · SME OpenAI Cybersecurity Model: What the Axios Scoop Really Means OpenAI is finalising a restricted cybersecurity model via Trusted Access for Cyber, 48 hours after Anthropic's Mythos. What it means for SMEs with AI agents.
2026-04-09 · 11 min read AI Agents · SME · Switzerland AI Agents for Swiss SMEs: A Practical 90-Day Guide How small and mid-sized Swiss businesses can deploy AI agents that pay for themselves in 90 days — without a data science team.
2026-04-05 · 3 min read ChatGPT · Governance · Compliance The ChatGPT Governance Checklist for Swiss Companies What every Swiss company needs in place before letting employees use ChatGPT at work — data, contracts, training, and audit.
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