Dominic Plouffe
Entrepreneur / CTO. I write for technical leaders who want clarity on agents, big data, and what breaks in production.
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The State of LLMs in Business Today: What’s Working, What’s Not, and What Comes Next
The State of LLMs in Business Today: What’s Working, What’s Not, and What Comes Next Most businesses are no longer…
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Agent design patterns for production
TL;DR: Build agents by composing small, well-instrumented capabilities, enforcing runtime controls, and designing for predictable state transitions. These patterns reduce…
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Daily digest: Agents, Systems, and Mental Models (auto)
Daily digest: Agents, Systems, and Mental Models (auto) Daily digest: Agents, Systems, and Mental Models (auto) Intro As CTOs you…
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Tiny Experiments to Reclaim Your Focus
Design tiny experiments to reclaim focus Most productivity advice asks for dramatic overhauls: new tools, new schedules, or a complete…
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Packaging Beats Peak Performance
Packaging beats peak performance: why open-source models stall at the doorstep There’s a pattern I keep seeing: an engineering team…
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Agents Need Contracts, Not More Brains
Why the next decade of agents will be decided by their contracts, not their brains There’s a familiar pattern I…
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Agents need built-in security, not bolt-on audits
Problem Organizations are racing to deploy agentic systems — assistants that act on our behalf, call tools, and change state…
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Agents Are Here — Build with an Action Firewall
Title: Agents Are Here — Build with an Action Firewall Hook: The agent era is not a feature release —…
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The least sexy checklist that will keep your agent from burning down the org (rewrite draft)
Here’s a fun new job title that nobody asked for: AI babysitter. If you’re shipping agents (or even “just” tool-calling…