Chat Is Universal. Agents Are Gated by Governance
Anthropic published a survey on May 27, 2026, of 1,260 social scientists, fielded in late February and March 2026. One pair of numbers carries…
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The Harness Is the Control Plane: A Distributed Systems View of Agent Failures
Nine seconds. That is how long it took an AI agent to delete PocketOS's production database in late April 2026. The agent (Cursor running…
Why Your AI Agent Keeps Making the Same Mistakes
Your agent makes a mistake on Monday. You patch the prompt. It works on Tuesday. On Wednesday, a slightly different input triggers the same…
The Agent Runtime Era: Models Can Use Computers, Now Your Stack Needs To
For the last two years, the center of gravity in AI has been the model. Bigger context. Better reasoning. Better coding. Better benchmarks. That…
Repo Config Is the New Attack Surface for Coding Agents
A senior engineer opens an unfamiliar repo to review a PR. The coding agent wakes up and does what it was built to do.…
GitHub Just Put Agents in CI. Your Bottleneck Is Now Governance
Software delivery is becoming continuous inference. Agents don't just suggest code anymore. They act inside the delivery plane. And the first thing that breaks…
Building Production-Ready LangChain Agents: Architectural Patterns That Work
Turning architectural gaps into engineering patterns The Gap Between Demo and Production Last week I evaluated LangChain's architecture using SRAL. The scorecard revealed something…
Applying SRAL to LangChain: An Architectural Evaluation
A systematic evaluation of LangChain's architectural foundations using the SRAL framework Scorecard Summary Component Score Key Finding State ⚠️ Weak-to-Moderate Memory is optional, not…
Tools Don’t Extend an Agent. They Define It.
A 6.7-billion-parameter model, given a handful of tools, beat a model 26 times its size on a range of zero-shot tasks, from factual lookups…
PART II — ReAct: The Architecture That Unified Agentic Reasoning
Most discussions of ReAct frame it as a clever prompting technique. It isn’t. ReAct is the first time we gave language models a structure…