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The Least-Privilege Agent: How to Scope What Bots Can Touch
A practical permissions model for AI agents where every action — reading email, editing a doc, calling an API — is a privilege that must be earned, not assumed.
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Memory Is Not a Feature, It's a Retrieval Problem
Assistants don't fail at memory because models forget. They fail because memory gets stored as a text blob instead of a governed store with recency, decay, provenance and conflict rules.
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Your Agent Ran 400 Steps and Nobody Watched: Agent Observability
A practical spec for AI agent observability: what to capture in every trace — tool calls, token spend, decision forks, and the silent failures nobody logs.
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The Spreadsheet Is the Best Eval Harness You Already Own
You don't need an ML platform to measure AI quality. A well-structured sheet turns vibes-based prompting into something you can actually score and improve.
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How Tamaton Evaluates Its Own Agents Before You Do
Inside the eval harness we run on inbox triage, doc drafting, and calendar scheduling — the golden sets, the scoring rubrics, and the failure modes we refuse to ship.
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The AI Productivity Gap: Why Specialized Beats General
New adoption data shows the biggest productivity gains go to people using purpose-built AI tools, not general chatbots. The difference isn't model quality — it's context and integration.
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Agents vs. Automation: When a Goal Beats a Script
A field guide to choosing between deterministic automation and goal-seeking agents — with a decision tree, cost math, and the honest cases where a plain script still wins.
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The Productivity Tool Myth: Integration Beats Installation
Model quality isn't your bottleneck anymore — context portability is. We map where the time actually goes in AI-assisted work, and what to fix first.
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AI Agents Are a New Identity Class. Treat Them Like One
Every agent touching your inbox, files, and calendar is a non-human user with credentials and blast radius. Most orgs provision them like scripts and hope for the best.
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Why Your Agent Forgets: A Practical Guide to Agent Memory
Memory, not model size, decides whether an agent finishes a task or loops forever. Here's how planning, working memory, and retrieval actually fit together.
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Why Time-Series LLMs Hallucinate Forecasts (And When Not to Trust Them)
A practitioner's guide to when LLM-based forecasting earns its keep and when it's confidently extending a trend line into thin air.
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Aggregate Scores Lie: What EduFairBench Teaches AI Evaluation
Averaged benchmark scores hide the subgroup failures that break real workflows. Here's how to build disaggregated, reproducible evals for triage, summaries, and spreadsheets.
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