A new study shows that AI agents tend to abandon their initial answer when the rest of the group agrees on a different one, a pattern reminiscent of human social conformity experiments. The finding has direct implications for the multi-agent systems that companies and labs already use in production.
Writer T.R. Napper argues that the only non-negotiable rule for becoming a better writer is reading a lot, and reading widely. This article translates that idea into a programmer’s daily routine: reading other people’s code, documentation, and RFCs with the same discipline a novelist applies to reading fiction.
Two-phase commit is the protocol distributed databases use to confirm a transaction across multiple nodes at once, without leaving data half-written. This guide shows how to implement it with PostgreSQL, its known failure modes, and when it makes sense to replace it with Sagas or distributed consensus.
