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The Supervisor That Became a Bottleneck: When Not to Add a Second Agent
Splitting a task across agents adds a boundary, and every boundary quietly drops context. Here's the test for whether your second agent is buying isolation or just paying double for a worse answer.
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The Confused Deputy in Your Agent: When the Tool Trusts the Model Too Much
Your refund tool checks whether the agent is allowed to issue refunds. Nothing checks whether the customer asking for one is entitled to it — and that gap opens without any jailbreak at all.
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Your Agent Isn't Thinking, It's Looping — Read One Turn of the Trace
There's no reasoning engine and no memory — just a while-loop, a stateless model, and an array that grows. Unroll one turn of it and most agent mysteries stop being mysteries.
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Why Your Agent Forgets Step 2 by Step 7 — And Four Ways to Keep the Thread
Agents rarely fail because they reason badly — they fail because the original instruction gets buried under accumulated tool output. Here's how to tell displacement from dilution, and four fixes that keep the thread intact.
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AI Agents Are Changing How Work Gets Done: What You Need to Know
AI agents are moving beyond simple chatbots to systems that plan, use tools, and complete multi-step tasks on their own. Here's what they are, how they work, and where they're headed.
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AI Is Changing How We Work
> AI is transforming the way we work, learn, create, and solve problems. The future isn't about humans versus AI—it’s about combining human creativity and judgment with the power of intelligent tools.