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Field notes from Cubitrek's engineering practice. Modern web and mobile stacks, Shopify engineering, agentic AI installation patterns, and the operational detail that separates a prototype from something that ships to customers.

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php2shell: patch, then plan

Two critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVSS 9.2, unauthenticated remote code execution, and no safe server configuration. What to do this week, why your version number cannot tell you if you are exposed, and why patching to PHP 8.2 buys you ten weeks.

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The AI Code Review Bottleneck

Anthropic went from 2,500 merges a day to over 30,000 in four months and replaced git to cope. You cannot buy what they built, and they say so. What transfers is the diagnosis, and what it looks like at ordinary scale.

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52 AI Engineer Interview Questions

52 real AI engineer interview questions across LLM API integration, RAG and retrieval, agent frameworks, evaluation and observability, and production operations. With scoring rubric and what good answers look like. Used at Cubitrek to pre-vet every staff-augmentation candidate.

Faizan Ali KhanFaizan Ali Khan
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