A calm, editorial home for everything Kiran Chanda writes, shares, and teaches — articles, notes, and videos on AI agents, APIs, search, and engineering leadership.https://deepwissen.com/en-ushttps://deepwissen.com/articles/your-coding-agent-is-making-architectural-decisions/https://deepwissen.com/articles/your-coding-agent-is-making-architectural-decisions/It knows fifty design patterns — that's the problem. The most dangerous case isn't when it picks a bad pattern; it's when it picks a reasonable one, commits it as if you'd decided, and never mentions a choice was made.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsArchitectureTechnology Leadershiphttps://deepwissen.com/videos/the-5-ways-ai-agents-call-your-apis-course-intro/https://deepwissen.com/videos/the-5-ways-ai-agents-call-your-apis-course-intro/An introduction to the five patterns for connecting AI agents to your existing APIs.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsAPI Architecturehttps://deepwissen.com/videos/how-apis-actually-work/https://deepwissen.com/videos/how-apis-actually-work/The API foundations you need before letting an AI agent call your services.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAPI ArchitectureAI Agentshttps://deepwissen.com/videos/the-tool-layer-decision/https://deepwissen.com/videos/the-tool-layer-decision/Choosing the right tool layer — the five ways an AI agent can call your APIs, and when to use each.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsAPI Architecturehttps://deepwissen.com/videos/codeagent-interviewing-ai-preflight/https://deepwissen.com/videos/codeagent-interviewing-ai-preflight/A CodeAgent walkthrough — interviewing an AI before it runs (preflight).Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Agentshttps://deepwissen.com/articles/the-real-reason-your-ai-coding-assistant-keeps-getting-it-wrong/https://deepwissen.com/articles/the-real-reason-your-ai-coding-assistant-keeps-getting-it-wrong/It's not the model — it's what you're feeding it. Why the context pipeline, not the LLM, is where the real performance and cost gap lives.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsProduct Engineeringhttps://deepwissen.com/articles/what-1-minute-videos-got-wrong-about-claudes-c-compiler/https://deepwissen.com/articles/what-1-minute-videos-got-wrong-about-claudes-c-compiler/A viral clip claimed AI autonomously built a C compiler and replaced developers. Reading the actual engineering post tells a calmer, more interesting story.Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsTechnology Leadershiphttps://deepwissen.com/articles/one-year-working-with-ai-agents/https://deepwissen.com/articles/one-year-working-with-ai-agents/I thought AI would help me write code faster. What actually changed was everything else about the job.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsTechnology Leadershiphttps://deepwissen.com/articles/machine-readable-isnt-machine-understanding/https://deepwissen.com/articles/machine-readable-isnt-machine-understanding/Why the Semantic Web was 25 years early, and why AI agents just made explicit meaning unavoidable.Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsAPI ArchitectureMCPhttps://deepwissen.com/articles/ai-never-disagrees/https://deepwissen.com/articles/ai-never-disagrees/AI mirrors your enthusiasm instead of challenging you. Why that's dangerous, and how to deliberately engineer disagreement into your process.Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsTechnology Leadershiphttps://deepwissen.com/articles/are-we-cultivating-innovation-or-technical-debt/https://deepwissen.com/articles/are-we-cultivating-innovation-or-technical-debt/AI lets everyone 'grow' software fast. But without understanding the soil — architecture, security, maintainability — we may just be accumulating debt faster.Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsProduct EngineeringArchitecturehttps://deepwissen.com/articles/ai-makes-code-work-engineers-make-it-right/https://deepwissen.com/articles/ai-makes-code-work-engineers-make-it-right/Part 1: Agile user stories work because humans fill the gaps with context. Hand those same lightweight stories to an AI and the gaps become dangerous.Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsProduct Engineeringhttps://deepwissen.com/articles/mcp-rest-pattern/https://deepwissen.com/articles/mcp-rest-pattern/The MCP → REST pattern: one protocol-adapter service makes your existing REST microservices AI-accessible — no rebuilding required.Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTMCPAPI ArchitectureAI Agentshttps://deepwissen.com/articles/how-github-copilot-agent-mode-appears-to-work/https://deepwissen.com/articles/how-github-copilot-agent-mode-appears-to-work/After reverse-engineering the GitHub Copilot extension, here's how Agent Mode appears to index your codebase, search it, and act with 16+ specialized tools.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsArchitecturehttps://deepwissen.com/articles/ai-jailbreaking-attack-vectors/https://deepwissen.com/articles/ai-jailbreaking-attack-vectors/How 'jailbreaking' tricks AI systems into ignoring their safety rules — including the 'Affirmation Jailbreak' — and how providers and teams defend against it.Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTSecurityAI Agentshttps://deepwissen.com/articles/reinforcement-learning-trial-and-error/https://deepwissen.com/articles/reinforcement-learning-trial-and-error/Markov Decision Processes and the Bellman equation, explained with a robot vacuum and a treasure-hunt grid — the secret sauce behind how AI learns to make smart decisions.Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTAI Agentshttps://deepwissen.com/articles/copilot-agent-mode-productivity-vs-security/https://deepwissen.com/articles/copilot-agent-mode-productivity-vs-security/Agent Mode runs with your full privileges and no built-in guardrails — and the 'Rules File Backdoor' attack shows how hidden instructions can turn it against you.Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTSecurityAI Agentshttps://deepwissen.com/articles/github-copilot-a-developers-powerful-ally/https://deepwissen.com/articles/github-copilot-a-developers-powerful-ally/Copilot is a productivity multiplier, but only when you lead and it follows. Practical prompting, review, clean-code, and team practices for getting real value.Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsProduct Engineeringhttps://deepwissen.com/articles/finding-balance-lessons-from-the-wild-robot/https://deepwissen.com/articles/finding-balance-lessons-from-the-wild-robot/A robot teaching a gosling to survive by checking off tasks is a surprisingly good metaphor for how junior developers are learning to code with AI.Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsTechnology Leadershiphttps://deepwissen.com/articles/deepseek-r1-on-raspberry-pi-5/https://deepwissen.com/articles/deepseek-r1-on-raspberry-pi-5/Running DeepSeek R1's distilled reasoning models locally on a Raspberry Pi 5 — what worked, what didn't, and why local AI is worth the experiment.Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTAI AgentsProduct Engineering