Articles in English about distributed systems, AI agents and black-box testing.https://blog.cygankiewicz.com/enhttps://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/ai-agents-are-coming/https://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/ai-agents-are-coming/Is DHH crazy? A technical reality check from my little agent factory. Why writing code is becoming less important than deciding what should be built, and why Saturday Night Live is suddenly talking about AI agents.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-agentsdeveloper-toolsstartupsopen-sourcehttps://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/is-open-mercato-an-ai-slop/https://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/is-open-mercato-an-ai-slop/I went to the Open Mercato HackOn to find out whether agent-built software is the future of engineering or just AI slop at industrial scale. A hackathon win, ten Cezar PRs and several clouds later, I have an answer.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-agentsopen-sourcehackathondeveloper-toolsstartupshttps://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/ethics-of-agent-exploitation/https://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/ethics-of-agent-exploitation/The price of synthetic labor is collapsing. Some thoughts from my small agent factory about AI economics, KV cache compression, human-in-the-loop and whether I should feel guilty about keeping the machines busy.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-agentseconomicsethicshttps://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/cezar-agent-orchestrator/https://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/cezar-agent-orchestrator/How I extended Cezar at the Open Mercato hackathon with machine telemetry, dispatch limits and an adaptive admission governor. Human in the loop, agents in worktrees.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-agentsopen-sourcehackathondeveloper-toolshttps://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/meta-muse-black-box-testing/https://blog.cygankiewicz.com/en/meta-muse-black-box-testing/Four spawn experiments against a black-box multi-agent runtime, six database lock timeouts recovered from its durable trace, and a careful look at what that evidence does and does not show.Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-agentsreverse-engineeringdistributed-systemspostgresql