Engineering judgment in the AI era
Co-Founder & CTO, Fcode Labs.
I write about architecture trade-offs, verification, and deciding what is worth shipping.
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Five LLM behaviours that become design constraints in agentic systems, with the research behind each and what you must enforce in code instead of the prompt.
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Code Ships. Judgment Scales.
I'm Ramesh Rathnayake — Co-Founder and CTO of Fcode Labs , and part of the team building Forevate . Most of what ends up on this blog comes from the same place my day job does: production systems, architecture trade-offs, and the judgment calls that only show up once code has to survive contact with real users.
Fcode Labs started in 2018, when Buddhishan Manamperi, Tharindu Malawaraarachchi, and I — after a few startups that didn't pan out — decided to bet on Sri Lankan engineering talent one more time. Today we build for clients across healthcare, manufacturing, and security in seven countries. Forevate, our newest venture, is a real-time market intelligence platform built for teams who need to act before the data goes stale.
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What started in a single Colombo office now runs out of Colombo and Singapore both.
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Fcode Labs expands into Europe with key partnership in Sweden
Fcode Labs is expanding into Europe through a Sweden partnership with tech entrepreneur Anton Lundberg to deliver SaaS and AI products by combining Stockholm-based leadership with Colombo-based engineering.
Fcode Labs “Scale Up Smart” Workshop in Singapore Empowers Digital Startups
Fcode Labs successfully hosted its “Scale Up Smart” workshop in Singapore as part of #GrowDigitalSingapore2024, equipping digital startups with practical strategies, expert insights, and networking opportunities to effectively scale their businesses.
Fcode Labs introduces power of AI in coaching
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