Field Guides
Implementation playbooks, operator patterns, and deployment methods.
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Production-oriented analysis, benchmarks, and market/system intelligence.
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External tools
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Context Is The New Prompt
Prompt engineering hit its ceiling. The teams pulling ahead now are engineering context: retrieval, memory, tool access, not tweaking instructions. Context is the new prompt.
From Lab to Production: Why the Last Mile of AI Deployment Is Actually a Marathon
The models have never been better. The deployment rate has never been worse. What's actually breaking between 'it works in a notebook' and 'it runs in production.'
The Training Data Problem: Why What Models Learn From Matters More Than How Much
The AI industry's defining bottleneck has shifted from architecture and compute to something far less glamorous: the data itself.
Tools That Think Back: When AI Agents Learn to Build Their Own Interfaces
The first generation of agents treated tools as static functions. The emerging generation reasons about tools, remembers usage patterns, and adapts to heterogeneous interfaces.
From Answer to Insight: Why Reasoning Tokens Are a Quiet Revolution in AI
OpenAI's o1 jumped from the 11th to the 83rd percentile on competitive programming. The difference wasn't better data or more parameters; it was reasoning tokens, invisible chains of thought that let models think before they answer.
The Goldfish Brain Problem: Why AI Agents Forget and How to Fix It
Stanford deployed 25 agents that planned a party autonomously. But most production agents today can't remember what you told them ten minutes ago. The memory problem isn't a model limitation; it's an architectural one, and new solutions are emerging.
From Prompt to Partner: A Practical Guide to Building Your First AI Agent
Agents have moved from academic benchmarks to production systems processing millions of conversations. The gap between hype and reality comes down to architecture. This guide walks through model selection, tool design, and instruction engineering with production examples.