AI coding tools generate code that misses your conventions, ignores past decisions, and breaks patterns, forcing costly rework. Unblocked changes this by building organizational context from code, PR history, conversations, docs, and runtime signals. Instead of guessing, agents operate with the same understanding as experienced engineers.

This week's system design refresher covers 11 ways to use AI for productivity, from summarizing technical blogs with Google's NotebookLM to turning meeting transcripts into action items with Otter.ai. The article also explores AI interview preparation, comparing traditional AI fundamentals with modern neural network concepts like transformers and RAG. Interviewers expect knowledge of both approaches.

For database architecture, PostgreSQL uses a process-based model with a manager coordinating specialized workers, while MySQL takes a thread-based approach with pluggable storage engines. When it comes to AI hardware, CPUs handle calculations sequentially while GPUs and TPUs enable parallel processing. TPUs with systolic array architecture are thousands of times faster than CPUs. The article also breaks down network protocols, explaining how HTTP, DNS, TCP, UDP, and IP work together to power the web.