https://josephbankole.ca Lived-experience write-ups on payment infrastructure and running AI agents in production, by Joseph Bankole. en https://josephbankole.ca/blog/blank-carousel-render.html https://josephbankole.ca/blog/blank-carousel-render.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT A renderer started shipping carousels where the first card was blank. Blank-on-the-first-one is a tell. It almost always means a race. https://josephbankole.ca/blog/debugging-ai-context-window.html https://josephbankole.ca/blog/debugging-ai-context-window.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Two AI agents started failing the same way. The root cause was context-window exhaustion as a production failure mode, and the fixes were classic operations, not AI magic. https://josephbankole.ca/blog/multi-agent-architecture.html https://josephbankole.ca/blog/multi-agent-architecture.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT A content operation that is almost entirely automated: scheduled agents that generate, queue, measure, and adjust. The models write fine. The hard part is everything around the model. https://josephbankole.ca/blog/payment-batch-fails.html https://josephbankole.ca/blog/payment-batch-fails.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT A failed batch is not one problem. It is thousands of payments sharing one problem. The triage order matters more than speed. https://josephbankole.ca/blog/iso-20022-migration.html https://josephbankole.ca/blog/iso-20022-migration.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT ISO 20022 is not a date on a calendar. From inside payment operations it is a long list of small things that break quietly. Here is what goes first.