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Context Is the Whole Job: Managing State in AI Agents
An agent's quality is mostly a function of what it knows at decision time. Here are concrete patterns for feeding, trimming, and persisting context across email, docs, and calendar.
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Agents Don't Fail at Reasoning. They Fail at Hour Three.
Long-running AI agents rarely collapse because they can't think. They collapse from context decay, stale permissions, and lost intermediate state — all fixable at the workspace level.
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Designing an Inbox an Agent Can Actually Use
Most productivity APIs were built for humans clicking buttons. Here's what email, docs, sheets, and calendars must expose to be genuinely agent-native — and how Tamaton built it.
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Most 'AI Agent Use Cases' Are Cron Jobs With Anxiety
A practical test for when to use an AI agent versus a plain script in an LLM costume. Three questions decide it: ambiguity, branching, and recoverable failure.
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Your Model Didn't Get Dumber. Its Post-Training Changed.
Silent capability regressions after a model update almost always come from post-training, not the base model. Here's how to build a regression eval suite in a day.
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When Agents Go Rogue: A Practical Threat Model
Rogue agents rarely hack anything. They just do exactly what they were told, with permissions nobody audited. Here's a concrete threat model and containment patterns.
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Giving AI Agents a Wallet: What Machine Payments Mean
Agent identity and payment rails are shipping for real. Here's what actually changes when your agent can pay for things without you in the loop.
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Fine-Tune, Edit, or Steer? Adapting LLMs Without a Retrain
Fine-tuning, knowledge editing, and activation steering solve different problems at wildly different costs. Here's how to pick the right one — and what breaks when you don't.
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Agent Strategy Decks Are Everywhere. Working Agents Aren't.
Every vendor shipped a 2026 AI agent strategy framework this quarter. The agents that survive real work share three unglamorous traits — and break in predictable ways without them.
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Confident, Wrong, and in Your Spreadsheet
A hallucinated sentence is awkward. A hallucinated formula is expensive. Here's a taxonomy of where generative AI fails in structured work — and the guardrails that catch each type.
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Give Your Agents an Identity, Not a Borrowed Password
Shared service accounts and copied human credentials make AI agents untraceable and over-privileged. Here's what agent-native identity looks like in a real productivity stack.
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How to Actually Evaluate an LLM Feature Before You Ship It
A practical eval playbook — golden sets, LLM-as-judge with guardrails, and regression tracking — for teams shipping AI, not writing papers.
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