Taktile EngineeringEngineering blog from the Taktile teamhttps://engineering.taktile.com/Adapting offensive security for the AI agent agehttps://engineering.taktile.com/blog/adapting-offensive-security-for-the-ai-agent-age/https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/adapting-offensive-security-for-the-ai-agent-age/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow we taught our AI coworker to take no for an answerhttps://engineering.taktile.com/blog/claudius/https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/claudius/Our AI coworker wrote 63% of the commits in his own codebase. He also spent six months learning things no benchmark measures, like what it means when a human closes your pull request. Here's the log.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTTaktile is a top-k contributor to duckdb-iceberghttps://engineering.taktile.com/blog/duckdb-paris-meetup-top-k/https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/duckdb-paris-meetup-top-k/At the DuckDB Paris Meetup, Tom Larkworthy showed how a patch we upstreamed lets DuckDB stop reading Iceberg files once a top-k query has its rows, and why there is plenty more low-hanging fruit in the extension.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Forward Deployed Engineering works at Taktile, and what our team is working on.https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/fde-at-taktile/https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/fde-at-taktile/How Forward Deployed Engineering works at Taktile, and what our team is working on.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTFrom writing code to writing companieshttps://engineering.taktile.com/blog/five-layers-from-writing-code-to-writing-companies/https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/five-layers-from-writing-code-to-writing-companies/A story about how the entire industry is going through a major upheaval right now. How we build new abstraction layers, and how each new layer collapses faster than the last.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTIt's never been more exciting to be a Builderhttps://engineering.taktile.com/blog/it-has-never-been-more-exiting-to-be-a-builder/https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/it-has-never-been-more-exiting-to-be-a-builder/Software Engineering is going through major upheaval right now. Everyone is scrambling to join the agentic revolution and employ AI to get those sweet 10x productivity buffs. If this still sounds overly hype, you missed what’s been happening since ~fall 2025.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTWe gave our agent a memory: building an LLM Wiki over sources that never sit stillhttps://engineering.taktile.com/blog/llm-wiki-agent-memory/https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/llm-wiki-agent-memory/Our agent kept re-deriving the same answers from scratch, burning minutes and dollars on every question. So we gave it a persistent memory. Here's how we built it, how we tested four ways to search it, and what changed.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTYour Lambda isn't leaking memory — your metrics are lying to youhttps://engineering.taktile.com/blog/onnx-memory-usage-on-lambda/https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/onnx-memory-usage-on-lambda/How a P2 incident led us down a rabbit hole of glibc arenas, cgroup high-water marks, and the realization that none of our memory metrics meant what we thought they meant.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat we're buildinghttps://engineering.taktile.com/blog/what-were-building/https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/what-were-building/Sharing expertise and building insightful content for everyoneThu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT