Alen Joy (@alenj) | Hashnode Toggle Sidebar Feed Pro Search Theme Sign in MoreDarkshift - a dark factory for softwareBug0 - The AI-native e2e QA regression testingThe foreword by Hashnode - official blog from the Hashnode teamPassmark - The open-source AI framework for regression testingHashnode gql skill - let your AI agent publish to your Hashnode blogHackathonsChangelogBrand@hashnode on XHashnode on LinkedInSupport - [email protected] of ConductTermsPrivacySitemap Search Hashnode Search posts, tags, users, and pages @alenj Alen Joy @alenj·Bangalore, India·Joined May 2026 I help enterprises ship AI that doesn’t embarrass them in production. Share About AI Architect. I design the boring control plane plumbing that keeps your impressive demos from quietly setting themselves on fire in production. Available for Nothing here yet. Alen Joy's blogs The Pragmatic Stackpragmaticstack.in26 posts About AI Architect. I design the boring control plane plumbing that keeps your impressive demos from quietly setting themselves on fire in production. Available for Nothing here yet. Alen Joy's blogs The Pragmatic Stackpragmaticstack.in26 posts ArticlesComments Recently published AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·40m ago · 6 min read The Repository Is the Prompt: Preparing a Codebase for Coding Agents 🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 A coding agent opens a repository, reads three files, changes a fourth, runs the wrong test command, and announces success. The team blames the model. The repository con 00 AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·Aug 18 · 17 min read One Screen the Architect Can Defend: A Reference Architecture for the .NET Agentic Service 🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 It is the architecture review the Friday before a greenfield It is the architecture review the Friday before a greenfield .NET agentic service ships. The senior architec 00 AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·Aug 13 · 17 min read The User Stopped Reading at Token Two: Streaming Chat on .NET 🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 It is 23:47 on a Thursday. A senior platform engineer types why is the warehouse webhook 502-ing into the internal copilot built on top of a .NET 10 + Microsoft Agent Fra 44TS AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·Aug 11 · 16 min read Twenty Three Runs, One Restart, Zero Survivors: Hosting Long Running Agents 🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 It is 09:14 on a Tuesday. A senior dev is staring at the Grafana panel for a brownfield .NET 10 worker service that runs an order investigation agent. The agent takes fo 10 AJAlen Joyinpragmaticstack.in·Aug 6 · 16 min read Structured Outputs in C# — Schema, Records, and the End of String-Parsing 🗓️ Last updated: August 2026 The architect inherits a brownfield .NET 10 service that classifies incoming customer-support emails into six ticket categories, extracts the order number if there is on 00 Load more