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Postmortems, contrarian takes, and the patterns that actually hold up in production. Written by Cisco Caceres. Navy veteran. MSNBC CMS in 1995. ECHO push platform at 3,000 instances in 2014. Building Abundera now.
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45 years in software. Started on a TRS-80 in the late 1970s. US Navy veteran. Built CMS at MSNBC in the 1990s. Built voice AI for federal agencies in the 2020s. The Field Manual is independent of his current ventures, all of which are listed in disclosures.