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Context Windows Are Lying to You: The Lost-in-the-Middle Tax
Bigger context windows don't guarantee better recall. Here's where models actually lose information — and how to structure prompts so they don't.
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Calendar Optimization: Tamaton's Constraint Solver for AI Scheduling
A technical look at how Tamaton models multi-party scheduling as a constraint satisfaction problem to coordinate meetings across AI agents and humans.
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Search That Understands Your Files: Beyond Keyword Match
Why keyword search fails in modern workspaces, and how semantic search, metadata, and permission-aware retrieval combine to make file search actually usable.
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The Spreadsheet Is the Best Interface for AI Agents
Chat is great for conversation, but grids give AI agents structured state, auditable steps, and natural human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
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RAG vs Long Context: When to Retrieve, When to Stuff
Skip the 'long context killed RAG' debate. Here's a practical decision framework based on cost, latency, recall, and freshness.
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Inbox Zero Is Dead: Triage Email With AI Instead
Chasing an empty inbox fails at scale. Priority-routing and AI-drafted triage workflows beat completion-based goals every time.
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Evaluating AI Agents: Beyond 'Did It Finish the Task'
Task completion is a weak signal. Reliable agent evaluation needs trajectory analysis, tool-call correctness, and a real failure-mode taxonomy.
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Building Reliable Email-to-Calendar AI Agents
A technical guide to converting messy email into accurate calendar events: entity extraction, temporal reasoning, and conflict resolution that actually holds up.
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Choosing an LLM: A Decision Framework, Not a Leaderboard
Benchmarks rarely predict production behavior. Here's how to choose an LLM by starting from task constraints — latency, cost, context, and tool use.
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Evaluating LLMs for Spreadsheet Formula Generation
A practical framework for testing GPT-4, Claude, and open models on spreadsheet formula generation — plus what the accuracy numbers actually mean.
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Building Custom AI Agents in Tamaton: A Technical Guide
A step-by-step walkthrough for creating specialized agents in Tamaton's agent framework, focused on document analysis and structured data extraction.
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Tamaton's Document Editor: Real-time AI Collaboration Patterns
How multiple AI agents can edit the same document at once using Tamaton's conflict resolution, version control, and structured collaboration patterns.
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