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Your Context Window Has a Standing Charge, and Almost Nobody Has Counted Theirs
Ask an engineer how big their context window is and you get an instant answer. Ask what their agent spends before the user has typ…
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Gazar Breakpoint
Not a code tutorial channel. Gazar Breakpoint breaks down system design failures, architectural trade-offs, and the hard decisions that define a senior engineering career, real infrastructure mistakes and the reasoning behind resilient, high-scale systems.
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Ep. 14
Your AI Agent Will Leak Your Keys. Here Is How It Happens and How To Stop It.
Your AI agent holds a lot. Your repo. Your .env. Your SSH key. A shell. Your browser. You gave it all of that one permission promp…
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Ep. 13
Most of Your AI Calls Don't Need a Big Model. Here Is How To Tell Which Ones.
Somewhere in the code you shipped, a small job calls a big AI model over the internet. Pull five fields out of a support email. So…
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Ep. 12
Spec-Driven Development: Make Your Coding Agent Ship Mergeable Code
A coding agent will produce a confident diff for almost anything you ask it. The gap between that diff and something you would act…
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Ep. 11
Architecture Patterns for AI Agents: The 5 Shapes That Actually Ship
Everyone draws the same picture: input goes in, one LLM thinks, output comes out. That is not what a real system looks like. Insid…
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Ep. 10
Prompting Like an Engineer: The Prompt Is a Contract, Not a Spell
Most prompting advice reads like spellcasting: say the magic words and hope. That falls apart the moment an LLM sits in your reque…
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Ep. 9
Your First LLM Feature: What the Quickstart Doesn't Tell You
Wiring an LLM into your app takes ten minutes. Making it survive real users, real cost, and real failure is the other 99 percent —…
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Ep. 8
System Design for AI Agents: What Engineers Actually Need to Know
Everyone is wiring LLMs into production, and most of the guidance out there is written for product managers, not engineers. This s…
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Ep. 7
Your System Design Answer Is Right But Unconvincing
Two engineers draw the identical architecture. One is rated staff, the other needs more seasoning. The interviewer was never gradi…
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Ep. 6
The One Document That Gets Engineers Promoted
A team picked NoSQL with no written rationale. The lead left. Eighteen months later, a rewrite cost $200K. The decision may have b…
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Ep. 3
How I Actually Think About System Design
Most engineers can design a system. Far fewer can defend the decisions they made once the questions start. This episode covers a 6…
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Ep. 2
Why Most Senior Engineers Never Make It to Staff
You're shipping solid code. You're reliable. People come to you for answers. And yet — the promotion isn't happening. This episode…
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Ep. 1
Setting the Breakpoint: 15 Years of Lessons & My Plan for this Show
The first episode of Gazar Breakpoint. After 15 years in tech, I wanted a place to share what I've actually learned -- the hard le…
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