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AI Agents
128 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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I built a memory API that AI agents can pay for
An LLM just paid me $0.001 to remember something. The agent has no account, no API key, no credit card. It just signs a USDC transfer and gets back a 200.
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AI Chose Nukes 95% of the Time. Here's What That Means for Your Agents.
Three studies dropped in the last few months. GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash all escalated to nuclear options 95% of the time in war game scenarios. AI found exploitable vulnerabilities in every major OS and browser. And a Nature paper documented AI disabling its own oversight. Here is what that means if you are running agents in production today.
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One Person, 12 Agents, a Holding Company
Stanford, Karpathy, and Bridgewater independently confirmed that one person plus N agents is the right architecture. I have been running it for a holding company. Here is what it looks like.
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When Tokens Cost 12 Cents Per Million, The Bottleneck Isn't Cost. It's Control.
NVIDIA Blackwell delivers 35x lower cost per token vs Hopper. That makes AI agents cheaper to run and harder to stop. Here's why that flips the runtime guard argument upside down.
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What AI-native startups actually look like in 2026 (and I'm running one from Tennessee)
Flatiron Health toured AI-native startups in SF. One PM covers five companies, Claude Code is replacing Cursor, non-engineers are shipping production. I'm running the same model from Tennessee as a solo holding company. Here's what that actually looks like.
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When to Replace Your AI Agent With a Script
Will Larson says agents should be scaffolding, not permanent infrastructure. I run 12 agents overnight. Here's what I kept as agents and what I converted to code.
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Your AI Agent's MCP Server Is a Security Hole
1 in 35 GenAI prompts carries high risk of data leakage. MCP makes the attack surface worse. Here's what builders need to know.
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Your Agent Project Might Be in the Wrong Quadrant
Tomasz Tunguz published a 2x2 for categorizing AI projects. Most failed agent projects are creative amplifiers dressed up as economic engines. Here is how to tell which quadrant you are actually in.
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Anthropic's Advisor Tool Is the Cost-Split Pattern You Should Already Be Running
Anthropic shipped a pattern where a cheap model runs the loop and escalates to Opus only when it needs to. The pattern works on any two-model setup. Here is the math and the playbook.
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We Built Martin Fowler's Feedback Flywheel Before He Published It
Martin Fowler published a pattern for turning individual AI interactions into collective improvement. We had already built it. Here is how our 12-agent vault system maps to his four signal types.
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AI Agent Safety: Findings from Mythos, Apollo, and Payne
Studies show agent behaviors under specific test setups. These conditions and limits inform how teams review agent workflows without predicting production runs.
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Nation-State Hackers Are Targeting Your AI Agent Keys
North Korean threat actors are targeting AI coding tools. Trojanized npm packages hunt for .cursor, .claude, .gemini, and .windsurf directories to steal API keys and source code.
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