Agent Design
How you actually build AI agents that work. Architectures, tool use, memory patterns, and the frameworks worth paying attention to.
Deep Dives and Frameworks
Implementation playbooks, operator patterns, and durable analysis.
Signals, Maps, and Watch Lists
Production-oriented analysis, benchmarks, and market/system intelligence.
External tools
Execution tooling is separate
Swarm Signal keeps the analysis layer. Use BoredTools for reusable production templates and trackers.
Small Models Just Learned When to Ask for Help
SWE-bench has been the graveyard of small language models. While GPT-4 class systems resolve over 40% of real-world GitHub issues, models under 10 billion...
The Control Interface Problem in Physical AI
NVIDIA just released a video foundation model that can simulate physical worlds with startling accuracy. A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory built an...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...