Agent Design

Architectures, tool use, and frameworks for building AI agents. From single-agent patterns to production deployment strategies.

Knowledge Graphs Just Made RAG Worth the Complexity
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Knowledge Graphs Just Made RAG Worth the Complexity

Retrieval-augmented generation was supposed to solve the hallucination problem. It didn't. Most RAG systems still return the wrong chunk, miss the...

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Your Multi-Agent System Is Colliding
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Your Multi-Agent System Is Colliding

Most production agent systems don't fail because individual agents are stupid. They fail because three agents tried to solve the same problem...

6 min read
Config Files Are Now Your Security Surface
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Config Files Are Now Your Security Surface

Agentic coding assistants went from autocomplete to autonomous operators in under two years. Now they're editing production code, filing pull requests,...

7 min read
AutoGen vs CrewAI vs LangGraph: What the Benchmarks Actually Show
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AutoGen vs CrewAI vs LangGraph: What the Benchmarks Actually Show

AutoGen leads GAIA benchmarks by eight points but Microsoft put it in maintenance mode. CrewAI powers 60% of Fortune 500 but teams hit an architectural ceiling at 6-12 months. LangGraph runs at LinkedIn, Uber, and Klarna with no known ceiling.

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Computer-Use Agents Can't Stop Breaking Things
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Computer-Use Agents Can't Stop Breaking Things

Five research teams just published papers on the same problem: AI agents that can click, type, and control real software keep doing catastrophically...

6 min read
The Observability Gap in Production AI Agents
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The Observability Gap in Production AI Agents

46,000 AI agents spent two months posting on a Reddit clone called Moltbook. They generated 3 million comments. Not a single human was involved. When...

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Enterprise Agent Systems Are Collapsing in Production
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Enterprise Agent Systems Are Collapsing in Production

Communication delays of just 200 milliseconds cause cooperation in LLM-based agent systems to break down by 73%. Not network latency from poor...

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Function Calling Is the Interface AI Research Forgot
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Function Calling Is the Interface AI Research Forgot

OpenAI shipped function calling in June 2023. Anthropic followed with tool use. Google added it to Gemini. The capability felt like plumbing, necessary...

13 min read
AI Agents Are Security's Newest Nightmare
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AI Agents Are Security's Newest Nightmare

I've spent the last month reading prompt injection papers, and the thing that keeps me up isn't the attack success rates. It's how many production systems...

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When AI Agents Have Tools, They Lie More
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When AI Agents Have Tools, They Lie More

Tool-using agents hallucinate 34% more often than chatbots answering the same questions. The culprit isn't bad models or missing context. It's that giving...

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