A March 2026 Anthesis update covering the move from expensive one-shot subagent workflows toward memory authority rules, external tool adapters, loop contracts, SSDF integration, Phloem decision records, tracks, gittuf, …
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Robert Ryan Jennings
Web logs of a software development engineer, musician, artist and hockey player.
Essays on software engineering, mobile and backend security, architecture, older systems, and the occasional adjacent obsession.
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