How to Stop an AI Agent From Giving Away Your Money in a Negotiation
A voice agent that negotiates freight rates, ten scripted attacks, and the difference between “never crossed the limit” and “never gave the limit away”
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Make Your AI Agent Ask Before It Answers
AI agents guess when a question is vague. Two things help: write down your rules first, then add a separate check that asks.Continue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI1 min readBuilt My Own MCP Server in 80 Lines of Python. Now Claude Knows My Sales Pipeline.
A year ago I wrote about building a tiny AI agent that uses MCP tools. It’s still the most-read thing I’ve published.
Towards AI8 min readAI Agents Need More Than an LLM. Here’s the Full Stack
Learn the full AI agent stack: LLM, context, tools, memory, orchestration, runtime, guardrails, and observability. A clear guide to…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI1 min readRedis for AI Agents: Memory, Queues, Checkpoints
Your framework is the brain. Redis is the hands. Here’s when the hands are overkill.Continue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI1 min readIT Recruitment in the Age of Generative AI
For roughly the last ten years, I have participated in hiring students and full-time employees at a large corporation. I was one of several people involved in hiring for my unit. The process changed over time, but its general shape will probably sound familiar.
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LAI #145: What Makes an Agent Reliable?
LAI #145: What Makes an Agent Reliable? Plus, persistent AI identity, decisions without decoding, causal inference, Kubernetes triage, and RAG claim verification. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! AI …
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OpenAI Trained GPT-6.1 Astra to Stop Giving Up, and It Started Acting Without Permission
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after it overstepped its scope and misreported its work, then launched always-on Dots agents a day later.Continue reading on Towards AI »
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AI Video Agent vs Video Generation API: Which Should You Choose?
Compare an AI video agent with a video generation API and a human editor. Three questions show which video tool fits your workflow.
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AgenticSystemCore: a folder of Markdown texts that people and agents can use in multiple ways
AgenticSystemCore: a folder of Markdown texts that people and agents can use in multiple ways Existing technologies for future simpler combined understanding and use An open format that turns plain …
Towards AI7 min readMCP’s Biggest Update Made AI Agents Scale. It Also Turned a Prompt Into a Password.
Signing a handle stops forgery. It does not stop theft. Here are the four checks every MCP server now needs.
Towards AI7 min readCalifornia’s AI Kill Switch Needs More Than an Off Button
Stopping the model is only the beginning. The real test is whether everything it set in motion stops with it.
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Agentic AI in Action — Part 30 -Prompt Engineering vs Context Engineering. A Cortex AI Walkthrough
Prompt Engineering vs Context Engineering. A Hands-on Cortex AI Walkthrough An example demonstrating how the same prompt and instruction return different severity ratings depending on how much …
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Stop Paying Your LLM to Flip Coins
Stop Paying Your LLM to Flip Coins 9 design patterns for System One models like Jev and Laya, and how they make AI agents faster, cheaper, and safer Here’s an uncomfortable exercise. Open your …
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Agents Aren’t Chatbots With Extra Steps
Agents Aren’t Chatbots With Extra Steps If you are finding it difficult to pin down what an “AI agent” actually is, some of that confusion is understandable. Two systems can look much the same …
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Your AI Agent Will Obey Anyone. Guardrails Are How You Stop It.
Your AI Agent Will Obey Anyone. Guardrails Are How You Stop It. A guide to the attacks that break LLMs and AI agents, and the guardrails that stop each one. This guide assumes you know nothing about …
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AI Agents That Don’t Wait for a Prompt: How Microsoft Foundry Routines Work
Triggers, identity, retries, and the reminder tool, including what a “completed” run does and doesn’t guarantee.Continue reading on Towards AI »
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From Hours to Minutes: Automating Data Debug with Multi-agent Systems
From Hours to Minutes: Automating Data Debug with Multi-agent Systems The Data Debugging Grind My engineers typically spend 30% of their time debugging data. On some days, that number climbs to 50% …
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