New Adventures in IT

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IT Consultant, Software Architect, Agent Tamer. 40+ years of coding as a hobby, 25+ years of software engineering as a profession, PhD in Mathematics

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New Adventures in IT
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Aug 11
Neander now lives at an address of its own: neander-lang.org Neander is a minimalistic, safe-by-construction language designed exclusively for AI agents to generate and execute small programs that implement API-calling logic for enterprise systems. For more in-depth
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Neander — a minimalistic, safe-by-construction, agent-first programming language for generating and executing API-orchestration logic.
New Adventures in IT
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Jul 31
"Field Notes from the Grotto" closes with an encore on types and numbers. Neander has no type errors at runtime. It has no integer overflow, either:
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By Shape, Not by Name: Types and Numbers in Neander
Last time covered failure, in the program and in the envelope. This is the second encore and the last...
New Adventures in IT
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Jul 28
"Field Notes from the Grotto" returns with an encore on failure. Neander has no exceptions, no try, no catch. An error is a value while the program runs, and something else once it stops:
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Without Exception: How Neander Programs Fail
Neander has no exceptions. No try, no catch, no finally. A call to one of the host application's APIs...
New Adventures in IT
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Jul 21
"Field Notes from the Grotto" closes the foundational series with isolation. An agent's untrusted Neander program runs server-side, inside the host application, one call away from the real APIs and the real data:
Inside Grotto: Isolation and the API Boundary
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New Adventures in IT
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Jul 17
"Field Notes from the Grotto" continues with the budget system. Every Neander program is guaranteed to terminate, but "eventually" is not good enough when it runs inside the host application and spends its resources:
The Budget System: Thalers, Bytes, and Milliseconds
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