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          <title><![CDATA[Meeting You Where You Are]]></title>
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          <title><![CDATA[A Case for Both]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[AI agents are only as good as the context you give them. To shape how your agent behaves and what it knows how to do, there are two concepts at your disposal. Rules and skills allow you to spend less time repeating yourself and more time getting better results.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[AI and the New Polyglot Wave]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Ema Loftis</dc:creator>
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          <description><![CDATA[By framing the current landscape as a "New Polyglot Wave," I’ve moved past the anxiety of finding the "perfect" tool. Instead, I focus on building an intentional workflow where the best AI tool is sometimes three (or none).]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Who Owns Your Design System?]]></title>
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          <title><![CDATA[Specializing Fast: The Generalist's Edge]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Merani Cosme</dc:creator>
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          <title><![CDATA[What Pull Requests Reveal About Your Team]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Pull requests do more than improve code quality. They expose how a team shares context, distributes ownership, and makes decisions. By looking at patterns in PR size, review participation, and response time, teams can better understand their dynamics and values in practice.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Consistency & Flexibility in Design Systems]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Sparkbox</dc:creator>
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