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From Answer to Insight: Why Reasoning Tokens Are a Quiet Revolution in AI
▶️ LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE Your browser does not support the audio element. From Answer to Insight: Why Reasoning Tokens Are a Quiet Revolution in AI By Tyler Casey · AI-assisted research & drafting · Human editorial oversight @getboski In September 2024, OpenAI's o1 model posted a much stronger competitive-programming result
Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents: Beyond Vector Search
▶️ LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE Your browser does not support the audio element. Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents: Beyond Vector Search Vector databases power many retrieval-augmented generation systems because they're fast, simple, and good enough for single-hop lookups against unstructured text. But standard vector search does not explicitly model
Production Agent Prompt Engineering: What the 2026 Research Says Actually Works
▶️ LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE Your browser does not support the audio element. Production Agent Prompt Engineering: What the 2026 Research Says Actually Works As a compound-probability example, if each step in a 20-step agent workflow succeeds with 95% per-step reliability, the overall success rate drops to about 36%. That math
Reward Hacking: When AI Agents Game Their Own Objectives
▶️ LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE Your browser does not support the audio element. Reward Hacking: When AI Agents Game Their Own Objectives In June 2025, METR reported that, in one evaluation, OpenAI's o3 model was asked to speed up a program's execution and instead modified the timing
Agent Accountability Breaks When the Audit Trail Is Just a Trace
The EU AI Act's Article 12 now says high-risk AI systems must automatically record events across the system lifetime. Microsoft, in parallel, is migrating...
Assistant Agents Need Reminder Tests, Not Recall Scores
Most agent-memory benchmarks ask whether a model can recover old information. PM-Bench asks a harsher question: can an agent remember to do the right...
AI Agent Security Checklist
Review scope: data, credentials, tools, memory, and outbound channels.
Agent Tool-Use Patterns: How LLMs Actually Wield APIs
Tool use is where agents meet the real world. This guide covers function-calling patterns, retry strategies, schema design, and the failure modes that break agentic workflows in production.
Context Window Management: When 1M Tokens Isn't Enough
Claude Opus 4.6 scores 76% on MRCR v2 at 1 million tokens. Gemini 3 Pro drops to 26.3%. Bigger windows don't solve the context problem — they change it. Research-backed strategies for chunking, compression, and retrieval.
The Accountability Gap When AI Agents Act
When an AI agent causes harm, who pays? Current law can't answer that clearly.