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By Hanbin TanJune 26, 20268 min read

Agent Workflows Need Operating Records

Over the last few weeks I kept noticing the same pattern in the agent tools and papers I collected. The most useful work was not trying to make an agent sound more confident. It was trying to leave better records of...

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By Hanbin TanJune 1, 20267 min read

Agent Systems Are Becoming Control Planes

Over the last three weeks I kept coming back to one pattern: the AI projects and papers that felt most useful were not promising a more magical chat box. They were building the control surfaces around agents: sandboxes,...

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By Hanbin TanMay 10, 20268 min read

What I Learned This Week About Building Reliable AI Agents

This week I kept coming back to one idea: the interesting part of AI engineering is moving away from the single model call. The strongest tools and papers I read were not just asking whether a model can write code,...

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