A hands-on guide with Gemma 4, Ollama, and the OpenAI Agents SDK

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I let an AI agent search again whenever it chose. It found some papers plain search had missed, lost some plain search had found, and gained too little to trust.

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Grid puzzles that people solve almost perfectly show where language and vision models still break

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Towards Spec-Driven Test Automation, Part 4

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Turn scattered requirements into deployable agents

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A million-token output window changes what you can hand a model in one go, and the benchmarks and the bill show who it actually suits.

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A hands-on Jev repo comparison of routing accuracy, latency, and output reliability

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Pasting in the whole chat history cost 20 to 31 times more than looking up notes, and it did no better on the tasks.

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A technical reflection on why data scientists need software engineering principles when AI agents write code.

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Agents got good. The hard part now is everything around them.

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Real repositories, seeded agent decisions: what 50,400 runs show about wasted turns, patch churn, and which harness rules help

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Re-reading my own IBM patent on real-time concert feedback as what it actually was: an agentic loop with multimodal perception, memory-grounded inference, and a human in the loop. What it got right, and what a decade of hindsight teaches agent builders today.

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Add architectural guardrails around how agents read untrusted sources and use them in the workflow.

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AI Agents for Beginners, Part 1

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AI agents can now write more code than any of us can read. That changed how I think about AI.

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Mapping structural variance against execution outputs to estimate coding agent reliability without ground truth.

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Towards Spec-Driven Test Automation: Part 3

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A controlled test of Gemini, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and Claude on leakage, reporting delays, promotion effects, and structural breaks.

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From guarding one agent to steering a fleet

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Trying to answer the question of "Can LLM agents discover?" through the lens of creativity

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