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AI Agents
104 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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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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Your AI agent doesn't need memory. It needs a file.
I run a one-person company on scheduled agents and gave almost none of them memory. They write to files instead. Here is why that wins.
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How to Close the AI Agent Cost Gap at the Call Site
The cost gap between what an AI agent could cost and what it does cost is 40%. You close it at the call site, not in a dashboard. Here is how.
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57-71% of AI Agents Leak Data Between Users. Here's the Fix.
A 2026 Mem0 survey found 57-71% cross-user memory contamination across major agent frameworks. Here is why it happens and how to stop it.
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When JPMorgan's AI bill goes up, who controls it?
JPMorgan turned on AI for 250k people. The quiet line is that the usage racks up fees. Here is how to control the bill before it arrives.
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Anthropic's IPO and the 40% Cost-Savings Gap: Why Your Spend Cap Matters More Now
Anthropic filed for IPO at a $47B run-rate while 40% of enterprise customers report under 10% cost savings from Claude. Here is how to close that gap.
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Your AI Agent's Retry Loop Is a Cost Bug Waiting to Happen
A repair agent in my own pipeline failed the same check 27 times in a row. Each try was a paid model call. Here is why uncapped retries quietly burn money, and the two-line fix.
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What Anthropic's MITRE ATT&CK Report Means for Teams Running AI Agents
Anthropic banned 832 accounts for AI-enabled attacks. What it means for teams running AI agents.
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