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RAG for Your Inbox: Retrieval Over an Email Corpus
Email is the hardest RAG target there is — threads, quotes, and recency all conspire against you. Here's how to design inbox retrieval that's actually accurate.
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Context Windows Are a Trap: Why RAG Still Beats 1M Tokens
Frontier models keep bragging about million-token context windows. For real knowledge work, disciplined retrieval still wins on accuracy, cost, and latency.
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How to Evaluate an AI Agent Before You Let It Touch Your Inbox
A practical evaluation framework — task success, tool-call accuracy, hallucination rate, and recoverability — for deciding whether an agent is safe near your email and calendar.
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Shell Injection in AI Coding Agents: A Defense Playbook
Autonomous coding agents run commands you didn't write. Here's how to sandbox them like the untrusted executors they are — instead of trusting model alignment.
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The Calendar Is a Reasoning Problem, Not a UI Problem
Most scheduling agents fail because they treat the calendar as slots to fill instead of constraints to reason about. Here's what real calendar reasoning requires.
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Does Your AI Tool Leak IP? A Data-Flow Audit Guide
A practical framework for tracing exactly what leaves your environment when AI touches your documents, code, and email — before it becomes someone else's training data.
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Real-Time Guardrails Beat Better Models for Code Quality
The Sonnet 4.6 guardrail results suggest output validation, not raw model choice, is the highest-leverage lever for reliable AI code.
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LLM Quantization: What You Actually Lose at 4-Bit
A measured look at where 4-bit quantization degrades reasoning and retrieval — so you pick precision by task instead of chasing the smallest model.
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How Tamaton Selects Models Per Task, Not Per Vendor
A routing layer picks the right model for each request — summarization, extraction, or reasoning — so quality and cost stay flexible instead of locked to one provider.
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Evaluating AI Output When 'Looks Right' Isn't Good Enough
Fluent isn't the same as correct. Here's how to build task-level evals, groundedness checks, and regression testing into everyday AI features.
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From Chat to Workflows: What Makes a Stack Agent-Ready
Agent-readiness isn't about bolting on chatbots. It's about exposing structured tools, clean state, and observable actions across email, docs, and search.
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Zero-Trust for AI Agents: Scoping Permissions in Your Stack
Treat every agent action as untrusted by default. Here's how to build permission boundaries around inbox, files, and calendar instead of handing out blanket access.
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