Agentic AI
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Why I’m Betting on a Minimal Agent Harness
Pi 1.0's own release notes claim a 40% prompt-token cut from Codemode. Here's the arithmetic I'd run before trusting a minimal agent harness.
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Open-weight decision models: Clef vs Strands Decider
Clef and Strands Decider 2B are open-weight decision models that return a calibrated score, not text. Here's what shipped and why it matters.
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The Bug Was Reproducible. My Logs Weren’t.
A post on this site ended in a raw API payload for 151 days. Fixing it took two minutes. Explaining it took longer, and I never finished, because I had not recorded what the model actually said.
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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 surprises in production and make agents auditable, debuggable,…