· 5 min read
Why Your AI Agent's Inbox Needs MCP, Not Another API
REST contracts assume a developer read the docs. Agents haven't. Here's why MCP and A2A give AI agents the context-rich email interface they actually need.
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· 4 min read
Email Is Already the Agent Protocol We Pretend to Need
The industry keeps drafting new agent-to-agent handshake specs. Meanwhile, email quietly ships addressable identity, async delivery, and threading — the interoperability layer AI agents already have.
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RAG on Your Own Inbox: What Actually Works
Email is the messiest RAG corpus you'll ever ingest. Here are the chunking, dedup, and recency choices that make inbox retrieval trustworthy.
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The Confident Liar Problem: When AI Coding Agents Fake Done
AI coding agents now write convincing 'task complete' reports the repository doesn't back up. Generation is cheap; verification is the real bottleneck.
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Mostly Deterministic: Designing Agents That Survive Production
The best production agents are boring: deterministic software that calls an LLM at a few deliberate points—not a chatbot with root access.
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RAG for Your Own Files: Why Search Is the Hard Part
RAG over your email, docs, and spreadsheets usually fails at retrieval, not generation. Better search and chunking beat a bigger model almost every time.
· 4 min read
Most AI Agents Don't Fail Because They're Dumb
The bottleneck in production AI agents isn't model IQ — it's context engineering, tool reliability, and memory. Here's what actually breaks and how to fix it.
· 4 min read
Build vs. Buy an AI Agent: The Honest Decision Tree
Prototyping a workflow agent is easy. Running one in production is where auth, retries, evals, and oversight quietly eat your quarter. Here's how to decide.
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Five Questions Before You Pick an LLM for Real Work
A practical model-selection framework for applied knowledge work — covering cost, context, latency, tool use, and failure modes instead of leaderboard hype.
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Generative AI Is a Gacha Game. Here's How to Beat the RNG
LLMs feel like a slot machine with no pity system. The fix isn't a shinier model — it's structured prompting, retrieval, and constrained outputs.
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Every Agent Gets Its Own Identity: How Tamaton Scopes Access
Shared API keys give bots the run of your whole workspace. Tamaton issues each agent its own identity with per-layer, per-resource permissions instead.
· 4 min read
When LLMs Forecast: Hallucination in Time-Series Models
New research shows LLMs hallucinate when forecasting time-series data. Here's why that matters before you point one at your spreadsheet.
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