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Building an AI-Native SDLC

Breaking down MetaHarness, the system behind Tenex's SDLC, the principles it runs on, and what changes when coding agents become partners in development.

Aug 5, 2026 19 min read
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AI Engineering

Does Your AI Agent Actually Work? A Guide to Eval-Driven Development

Hand-testing a few prompts won't tell you if an agent is ready to ship. Learn the building blocks every eval platform shares, and a five-step loop for turning production failures into tests that keep them from coming back.

Oct 2, 2026 11 min read

AI Adoption

How to Build a Claude Skill by Letting Claude Interview You

I thought Claude connectors were bloat until I needed one. Here's how I built a Claude skill in my first week working at Tenex — plus the template I'm giving away so you can build your own.

Sep 2, 2026 10 min read

AI Engineering

Kimi K3, explained: how forgetting made the biggest open model possible

K3's answer is selective memory: preserve exact history in some layers and let the rest update a fixed state. That is how forgetting made a model this large practical.

Jul 30, 2026 18 min read

AI Governance

The Citizen SDLC

A six-stage lifecycle that takes what non-technical employees build with AI from personal prototype to production the whole company can rely on.

Jul 16, 2026 16 min read

AI Fundamentals

The Machine That Learned to Pay Attention

Part B of the series: follow one ambiguous word through a transformer, station by station, from tokenizer to attention to the dice roll that picks the next word — plus the remodels and challengers reshaping modern models.

Jul 16, 2026 17 min read

AI Fundamentals

Vectors Are All You Need

Part A of a series that builds modern AI from the ground up: how words become vectors, why the dot product runs everything, and how a machine learns by nudging numbers until it stops being wrong.

Jul 8, 2026 14 min read

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