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Golden Journeys: Synthetic Conversations as Regression Tests for AI Assistants

AI assistants are becoming deeply embedded across apps, devices, and internal tools. They read context, recall previous turns, guide users through troubleshooting, analyze data, and invoke tools on behalf of the user. Yet the systems beneath them—models, prompts, routing layers, retrieval indexes, formatting logic, safety filters—are in constant

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Contract-Checked Event Buses: Making Pub/Sub Safe Between Micro-Features

At small scale, an internal event bus feels magical. One team adds “user.session.started”, another listens and fires analytics, another triggers notifications. No coordination meeting, no new REST endpoints, just vibes. Fast-forward a year: You’ve got dozens of topics, half a dozen “user.*” events, multiple schemas for “pet.