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By Hanbin Tan7 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 Tan8 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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