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Building Trust, Not Just Builds: Verification-First Engineering with AI Agents

AI-assisted development is often reduced to code generation, but the harder problem in Systems Engineering is Verification.

Ashraf Miah

Apr 10, 2026

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Ingesting a Nation’s Railway: Real-time Data Pipelines for Under £5 a Month

10 min

How near real-time data ingestion, storage, and visualisation of thousands of messages per minute can be achieved using open source tools like TimescaleDB and modern…

Cracking Compression: Clever Choices for Time series Data

18 min

The lakehouse narrative dominates modern data platform thinking, but databases remain compelling for time series workloads. Using Formula 1 racing car telemetry data, we…

AI Ethics: It’s Us, Not Them

8 min

We don’t have to worry about Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics (yet), it’s the Humans we need to focus on. A story of the release of OpenAI’s GPT-5 – it’s unclear which…

A Practical Guide to Time Series Seasonality & Signal Decomposition

46 min

Identifying seasonal patterns in time series data by decomposing the signal into its core components: Trend, Seasonality, and Residuals.

Time Series Change Detection Introduction

43 min

Detecting changes in a time series whether from Internet-of-Things streams or Industrial Machines using Python.

ChatGPT Alternative: Part 3 - Open Source Large Language Model (LLM) Service Interface

18 min

A guide on setting up the OpenWebUI tool as an alternative interface for multi-modal Large Language Model (LLM) usage. The final part of a three parts series for a working…

ChatGPT Alternative: Part 2 - Managing Containers and Providing Secure Access

34 min

A guide on managing containers with podman and providing secure web access using traefik. The second of three parts in the series to a working remotely accessible…

ChatGPT Alternative: Part 1 - Creating A Cloud Server for Hosting

13 min

A guide to creating a Cloud Server on the low cost Hetzner service, its configuration and setup for secure access. The first of three parts in the series to a working…