The Model Is Not the Market: The Limits of Synthetic Respondents
Picture the choice a consumer-research team faces this year. On one side, a real panel: weeks of fieldwork, incentive costs, recruiting, the slow grind…
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When the Description Becomes the Routing Table
Salesforce put Multi-Agent Orchestration into its Summer '26 release. That matters less because Salesforce did it, and more because Salesforce sits inside a very…
Coding Agents Are Runtimes. Evaluate Them Like One
Most teams still evaluate coding agents with one question. Can it write the code? That question made sense when the product was autocomplete. You…
Substance Over Surface: Where Anthropic and OpenAI Agree on Reasoning
There is a comfortable intuition about making models safer. Show the model good behavior. Constrain what its reasoning is allowed to look like. Keep…
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…
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…
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…
Research Vault: Open Source Agentic AI Research Assistant
The Problem Nobody Talks About I was drowning in research papers. Not metaphorically—I had 50+ PDFs, dozens of articles, and a note-taking system that…
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.…