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AI Agents
99 posts on ai agents — guides and lab notes from real runs on hardware we own. New posts land here automatically. Start anywhere, or grab the copy-paste prompts that ship with them.
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How to Run Local LLM Verifier Loops on Owned Hardware
A local LLM workflow needs more than a model prompt. It needs a verifier loop that proves the file, command, URL, or report changed before the agent claims done.
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Use Owner Gates and AgentGuard to Keep AI Agents Moving
AI agents need two rails before they can run unattended: owner gates for judgment and AgentGuard for spend. Without both, the operator becomes the fallback.
- 7 min read
AI Agent Memory: What Actually Works in 2026
Most agent memory systems add complexity faster than value. This is the small set that actually compounds for one person running a fleet: files, ledgers, and strict verification.
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Your AI Agent Says "Done." Make It Prove It.
AI agents report work as done that they never did. Make every completion a falsifiable claim a script can verify before you trust it.
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Give Your AI Agents an Append-Only Event Log
An append-only event log lets you replay exactly what your AI agent did, and catches the crashed runs a status field hides.
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A self-healing system can't heal an empty queue
Automated recovery only fixes a broken machine. When the real failure is an empty queue, retrying does nothing forever. Two failures, one red box, opposite repairs.
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Missing AI agent cost data is not zero
A spend ledger that counts missing billing data as $0 hides exactly the unattended agent spend you built it to catch.
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What Salesforce's 20,000 AI Agent Deployments Teach a Solo Builder
Salesforce shipped roughly 20,000 Agentforce deployments and found 90% of agent work happens after launch. Here is what that means for a solo builder running a small agent fleet.
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What Anthropic's MITRE ATT&CK report means for solo AI builders
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57-71% of AI agents leak data between users. Here's what to do.
A June 2026 Mem0 survey of 8 major agent harnesses found that over half of them leak memory across users. Here is why keyword retrieval is a security risk and how to fix it.
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Agentic coding moved my bottleneck to code review
Agentic coding made writing code free. The slow part is now reviewing a queue of plausible PRs.
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Stop Telling People You Have 11 AI Agents
Agent count is a vanity metric. It tells you about volume, not value. Here is what I track instead after running a one-person AI fleet.
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