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Why your AI agent shouldn't be one model — building multi-agent reviewers for code

Most "AI code reviewers" collapse the whole job into one big prompt. We argue for a small, opinionated graph of specialists — and show what that bought us inside MindPortalix.

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How a payments team cut domain-related rollbacks by 71% with MindPortalix

Six months in production with a fintech engineering org. We share what changed in the review loop, what kinds of bugs got caught earliest, and what the team kept doing manually.

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Capturing a workflow without writing a single prompt

A walkthrough of how domain experts onboard knowledge into MindPortalix using plain-language workflow files, references, and MCP tools.

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Inside the VS Code extension: streaming agent feedback under 4 seconds

A teardown of the extension's transport layer, why we picked SSE over WebSockets, and the trick that shaved 1.6s off cold starts.

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What MCP changed about how we wire agents to internal tools

An honest review of the Model Context Protocol after building 12 production agents on top of it. What it solved, what we still hand-roll, and what we'd build next.

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SERVMIND, one year in: what we believe about software-with-experts

A short retrospective on the kinds of problems we keep being pulled toward, and the working theory behind why a "portal" between roles works better than yet another doc tool.

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The 5 events worth listening to in your dev loop

Not every commit deserves a check. We outline the five events where domain feedback consistently changes outcomes — and three you should leave alone.

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Evaluating an agent fleet without losing your weekend

A pragmatic eval setup for teams shipping agentic systems — golden cases, regression suites, and the cheap signals we trust before more expensive ones.

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