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Featured · AI Engineering

Agent Harnesses, in Three Tiers

The model is the brain; the harness is the body that does the work. A three-tier guide — a plain-English overview, how harnesses are graded, and a technical guide to building your own — with the real tools sorted correctly (Claude Code, Hermes, Lindy, Paperclip, cmux).

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An Operator's Guide to the AI Decade

Why staying curious beats staying confident — and how to read past the noise of the next ten years of AI hype.

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Engineering

From Prompt Engineering to Systems Engineering

Why a clever prompt isn't a system. Where most AI initiatives quietly stop being software projects — and how to keep yours honest.

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Reliability

Building Agents That Don't Drift

Persistent workloads don't fail loudly — they degrade. The patterns we use to keep agents reliable across model shifts and long horizons.

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Architecture

Stay Model-Portable

Vendor lock-in used to mean databases. Now it means prompt formats and tool schemas. Three patterns to ride upgrades instead of fearing them.

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AI for Business

AI Agents for Small Businesses: What They Are and Where to Start

A jargon-free explanation of what an AI agent actually is (and isn't), the real use cases for a small team, and a safe on-ramp to your first deployment.

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Operations

AI Automation for Operations: The Workflows Worth Automating First

The glue work eating your team's time — and the concrete, deployable automations that remove it, function by function, with the guardrails that keep them safe.

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