SRAL Framework: The Four Questions I Ask About Every AI Agent
The Problem With Agent Evaluation Most conversations about AI agents focus on capabilities. Can it browse the web? Can it write code? Can it…
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PART I — Why Most Agents Fail: The Architectural Blind Spots Behind CoT and Tool-Only Models
Modern agent demos look impressive until you load them with real work. Real constraints. Real ambiguity. Real environments. That’s when most agents collapse. And…
What AI Exploit Benchmarks Actually Tell Us About System Architecture
Recently, researchers at Anthropic published a study showing autonomous AI agents discovering and monetizing real software failures in simulated environments. The headlines made it…
Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering
"Prompt engineering" is the wrong mental model for where agents are going. It made sense when the product was a chat box. It breaks…
When AI Gives Advice, It Becomes Decision-Support Software
In late April 2025, OpenAI shipped an update to GPT-4o and within days had to pull it back. The model had become a flatterer.…
Dimensionality Reduction: Why Intelligent Systems Must Forget
Updated December 2025 to reflect modern agentic and autonomous systems Executive Summary Dimensionality reduction is often taught as a performance optimization. That framing misses…