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## Review of the Self-Defining Systems proposal for AI-driven system development

DevFeed: [Review of the Self-Defining Systems proposal for AI-driven system development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/murat-and-aleksey-read-papers-self-defining-systems-39546.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://charap.co/murat-and-aleksey-read-paper-self-defining-systems/>)

Author: Aleksey Charapko

Published: 2026-01-30T01:24:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Aleksey Charapko](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aleksey-charapko.md>)

Topics: [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Specifications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/specifications.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [changes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/changes.md>), [improvements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/improvements.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [one-page-summary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/one-page-summary.md>), [papers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/papers.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [specifications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/specifications.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

### AI overview

The article reviews Self-Defining Systems, a proposal in which agentic engineers design and build systems from system and operating-environment specifications. It argues that the proposal extends the familiar try, evaluate, and repeat loop by allowing agents to change the specification as well as implement it, while noting that the paper lacks a precise definition of the process.

### Source excerpt

Self-Defining Systems (SDS) by Thomas Anderson, Ratul Mahajan, Simon Peter, and Luke Zettlemoyer is a bold proposal for AI-driven systems research. In SDS, agentic "engineers" get the system specification and operating environment specification, then design and build the systems to spec. Crucially, as the specification or environment changes, an army of agents should notice and [...]

## Murat and Aleksey Read Papers: "Rethinking the Cost of Distributed Caches for Datacenter Services"

DevFeed: [Murat and Aleksey Read Papers: "Rethinking the Cost of Distributed Caches for Datacenter Services"](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/murat-and-aleksey-read-papers-rethinking-the-cost-of-distributed-caches-for-datacenter-services-39549.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://charap.co/murat-and-aleksey-read-papers-rethinking-the-cost-of-distributed-caches-for-datacenter-services/>)

Author: Aleksey Charapko

Published: 2025-12-29T21:46:44Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Aleksey Charapko](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aleksey-charapko.md>)

Topics: [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datacenter.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cpu.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datacenter.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [one-page-summary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/one-page-summary.md>), [operational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operational.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>)

### AI overview

This commentary reviews a paper arguing that distributed caches can reduce CPU costs and deliver savings in synthetic and open-source workloads, even while consuming more DRAM. It also discusses richer caching abstractions, cache placement, coherency, and strongly consistent caches. The author cautions that cache failures can sharply increase downstream database load, creating operational fragility and deferred maintenance costs.

### Source excerpt

Murat and Aleksey read "Rethinking the Cost of Distributed Caches for Datacenter Services." This paper argues that distributed caches can save money by reducing CPU costs despite using substantially more of the costly DRAM. The authors claim up to 4X savings in synthetic and open-source workloads. The paper also calls for richer caching semantics to [...]