Debashish Ghosal

TLDR - Engineer -> Manager -> Tech Leadership, passionate about AI, Developer experience, planet scale infra, transformation - AI-native leadership. Rest here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deghosal/

Seattle, WA Joined on Oct 15, 2024 https://github.com/deghosal-2026/

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83 real agents tested zero mocks

Debashish Ghosal

Aug 13

I Stopped Trusting AI Agents With Tools. So I Built a Gatekeeper.

#ai #agents #security #gatekeeper

14 min read

Real-world agents break clean evals

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Aug 2

I Built an Agent Eval Harness. Real Agents Broke the Clean Version of the Story

#ai #agentskills #learning #opensource

9 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 11

A Test Run I Aborted Came Back and Corrupted My Evidence

#discuss #ai #testing #devops

5 min read

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Debashish Ghosal

Nov 10

Our Agent Gate Blocked Every Bad Change. So Everyone Started Rubber-Stamping It.

#discuss #ai #agents #productivity

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 10

Your Agent's Config Is a Dependency With No Lockfile

#discuss #ai #security #programming

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 9

The Shadow Backlog: How Agentic Code Generation Overwhelms System Architecture

#discuss #ai #softwareengineering #architecture

8 min read

Roots in lost context and self-correction failure

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 9

Why Your AI Agent Is Brilliant for 20 Minutes and Then Starts Lying

#discuss #ai #agents #programming

4 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 9

We Moved to a Bigger Model to Debug the Test. Then We Went Back to the Smaller One.

#discuss #ai #python #showdev

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 8

Nobody Writes About Retiring an Agent. Here's the Checklist.

#discuss #ai #devops #sdlc

4 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 8

What Publishing 35+ Agent Articles Taught Me About Writing (and About Agents)

#discuss #ai #writing #career

4 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 7

Rate Limits Are a Queueing Problem: Capacity Math for Agent Fleets

#discuss #ai #devops #productivity

4 min read

Readers share similar logs of autonomous behavior

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 7

I Keep a Log of Every Rule My AI Agent Broke. The Patterns Are Uncomfortable.

#discuss #ai #agents #productivity

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 6

The "Magic Pill" Delusion: Why AI Licenses Won't Fix Broken Platform Engineering

#discuss #ai #devops #platform

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 6

MCP Went Stateless This Year. Your 'Supports MCP' Checkbox Is Now a Lie.

#discuss #ai #mcp #devops

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 5

The FDE Mindset Shift: From Code Craftsmanship to Organizational Rewiring

#discuss #ai #career #softwareengineering

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 5

97 of 99 Sounds Great. It Would Have Been a Bad Release Number.

#discuss #ai #testing #security

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 5

Debugging Is the Skill AI Made Most Expensive to Skip

#discuss #ai #career #productivity

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 5

My Agent Said 'All Tests Pass.' CI Disagreed Three Minutes Later. Both Were Honest.

#discuss #ai #agents #devops

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 4

The Myth of the 10x Solo AI Developer: A Reality Check from Teams Actually Shipping

#discuss #ai #career #productivity

8 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 4

I Changed One Model Pin and Ten Test Results Went Stale

#discuss #ai #testing #devops

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 3

Supervising AI All Day Is Exhausting. Nobody Scheduled Relief.

#discuss #ai #mentalhealth #career

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 3

My 'Second Backend' Existed Only in the README

#ai #testing #programming #productivity

4 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 2

Architecting Deterministic Safety Gates for Agentic Workflows

#discuss #ai #devops #cloud

7 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 2

10 Prompts That Turn ChatGPT Into a Senior Data Analyst

#discuss #ai #beginners #programming

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 2

Claude Looked Blocked. My Policy Had Never Fired.

#discuss #ai #testing #showdev

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 1

AI Now Writes 75% of Google's New Code. 46% of Developers Don't Trust the Output. Nobody Wants to Talk About the Second Number.

#discuss #ai #career #productivity

4 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Nov 1

Stop Controlling, Start Leading: The "Let Them" Mindset at Work

#healthydebate #leadership #discuss #growth

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 30

Open Source Maintainers Are the First People Whose Inbox Got Automated

#discuss #ai #opensource #programming

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 29

The Soak That Reported 5,003 Deliveries for 5,000 Records

#ai #testing #programming

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 29

Why Forward Deployed Engineers Are Suddenly Hot: The Death of the Centralized AI Guild

#discuss #ai #platform #leadership

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 29

You Don't Have a 2.0 Platform Proposal. You Have a Preference.

#discuss #devops #career #productivity

12 min read

Compares AI tools to disposable XP spikes

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 29

Vibe Coding Is a Spike, Not a User Story

#discuss #ai #webdev

4 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 29

My Daemon Dropped 1,000 Records and Reported Success

#ai #testing #programming #llm

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 28

The Boundary Problem: When Staff Engineers Don't Draw Lines—and the Chaos That Follows

#discuss #leadership #career #technicallead

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 28

Zero LLM Calls From a Working Agent. My Capture Hook Was Lying.

#discuss #ai #testing #python

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 27

Slopsquatting: 1 in 5 AI Code Samples Recommends a Package That Doesn't Exist

#discuss #ai #security #programming

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 26

92 Green Field Tests Meant Nothing Until I Counted Which Could Lie

#ai #testing #programming

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 26

Context Engineering over Prompt Engineering: Architecting Codebases for AI Agents

#discuss #ai #aiagents #softwareengineering

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 25

The 10-Line AI Working Agreement Your Team Never Wrote

#discuss #ai #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 25

I OOM'd on 100 Rows Because One File Was 590 MB

#ai #outofmemory #testing #llm

6 min read

Exposes flaws in human testing assumptions

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 25

Three Times My Test Failed and the LLM Was Right

#ai #programming #llm #testing

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 24

Rushed vs. Rigorous: The Executive Blueprint for AI Adoption That Doesn't Alienate Your Best Engineers

#discuss #ai #career #productivity

8 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 23

98 Calls, 98 Errors, 0 Detections: The Bug My Test Suite Called Green

#healthydebate #ai #testing #programming

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 21

From Pilot Purgatory to Agentic Chaos: Why Medium Enterprises Keep Breaking Their Own SDLCs

#discuss #ai #devops #softwareengineering

8 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 21

My CI Was Red for 255 Commits and Nobody Looked

#ai #failingci #testing

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 19

226 Scenarios, 43 Detectors, 1 Clean Run: Building a Test Harness That Can't Lie

#healthydebate #ai #programming #testing

6 min read

The cognitive tax of reading synthetic code

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 19

The Verification Trap: Why Generative AI Is Making Senior Engineers Slower (and How to Fix It)

#discuss #ai #softwareengineering #productivity

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 19

My Helm Chart Linted Green and the Pod Crash-Looped

#ai #testing #k8 #crash

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 18

A Drift Detector That Cries Wolf Is Worse Than No Detector

#healthydebate #ai #testing #llm

4 min read

Real-world examples from a HivePlane field test

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 16

The Bug Lives at the Seam, Not in the Logic

#ai #testing #llm #programming

4 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 15

No Bootstrap, No Principal: The Day My Audit Log Became Fiction

#healthydebate #ai #testing #controlplane

4 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 14

The 75% Code Trap: How Senior Engineers Are Actually Surviving AI Mandates

#discuss #ai #career #productivity

9 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 13

I Signed a Regression and Almost Shipped It

#ai #testing #release #llm

4 min read

Marker files create hidden failure modes

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 12

One `rm -f` Silently Disabled My Crash Detection

#healthydebate #ai #programming #testing

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 11

The Last Generation That Learned the Hard Way

#healthydebate #ai #employeeexperience #career

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 10

My Release Pipeline Refused to Ship My Release. It Was Right.

#ai #release #testing #programming

5 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 10

Your AI Dashboard Is Green. Your Delivery Isn't.

#ai #roi #llm #agents

13 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 10

Same AI, Four Different Jobs: Startup, Mid-Size, Big Tech, IT Services

#healthydebate #ai #employeeexperience #career

7 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 9

The AI Memo Went Out. Then What?

#healthydebate #ai #employeeexperience #career

7 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 8

Your CEO Sees 5x. Your Engineers See a Longer Review Queue.

#healthydebate #ai #employeeexperience #career

6 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 6

You Can't Test Money Controls With a Free Model

#healthydebate #ai #llm #testing

4 min read

Why default packaging leaks junk files

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 6

Five Things Release Day Caught That Six Weeks of Green Tests Didn't

#ai #testing #agents #llm

5 min read