Dominic Plouffe
CTO of Trellis, with exits at FuseTalk, 360pi and DeadHeat. I write about making agents and big data work together safely, and I'm building yaaf, an open-source platform for running teams of AI agents that actually finish the job: yaaf.dplouffe.ca
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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 life reboot. That’s seductive because big changes feel…
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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 furiously trains a model, they throw the weights…
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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 keep seeing whenever a hot new agent platform…
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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 in the world. But the toolchain around agents…
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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 — it’s a change in failure modes. We’re finally…
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Your Agent Is a Junior Operator With Root Access
Here’s a fun new job title that nobody asked for: AI babysitter. If you’re shipping agents (or even “just” tool-calling features), you’re already in it. Because the moment…
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The least sexy checklist that will keep your agent from burning down the org
The least sexy checklist that will keep your agent from burning down the org Enterprise AI is no longer a thought experiment. Agents—those stitched-together, multi-step, networked LLM workflows—are…
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Agents on the Desktop: What It Means to Put an Agent Between You and the OS
Agents on the Desktop: What It Means to Put an Agent Between You and the OS Problem: we handed developers autonomous assistants and forgot the guardrails. In the…
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Agents at the Gates: Why Your Open-Source Agent Is the New Attack Surface
Agents at the Gates: Why Your Open-Source Agent Is the New Attack Surface We’ve crossed from “language toy” to “active agent.” That’s exciting — until the agent starts…