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Agent or Workflow: How to Decide What Should Be Autonomous
Most systems called agents should be workflows with a model call inside. The four shapes, a scoring rubric, and when autonomy is worth what it costs.
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The Agent Liability Gap: Nobody Has Decided Who Pays When Software Acts
When an agent moves money or promises a customer something, the loss lands wherever the contract is silent. That gap is a deployment constraint.
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Tool Design for Agents: The Interface Layer That Decides Whether an Agent Works
When an agent fails in production the cause is usually a badly designed tool, not a weak model. The granularity, description, parameter and return rules.
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Vertical AI Agents Are Becoming the New System of Record
The best vertical AI companies stopped selling assistants beside the suite. They are taking over the record itself, and the record owns the renewal.
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Agent Memory in Production: What to Store, What to Recompute, and What to Forget
Agent memory is a retention policy, not a database. The four memory classes, write and read rules, forgetting as a feature, and the store-or-recompute math.
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AI Agent Sandboxing: How to Let a Model Run Code Without Losing the Building
Container, microVM, or separate account: what each agent sandbox rung actually stops, why egress policy matters most, and how to scope agent credentials.
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Agent Observability: How to Trace, Evaluate, and Debug AI Agents in Production
Classic LLM observability breaks for agents. The telemetry model, four failure classes, trajectory evaluation, and a build order a platform team can ship.
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AI Agent Identity: How Enterprises Authenticate and Authorize Non-Human Actors
Why API keys break for AI agents, the delegation patterns replacing them, how to scope authorization, and the audit trail attribution requires.
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The Agent Protocol Land Grab: Why Interop Standards Are the New Platform War
Agent interop standards are not neutral plumbing. Whoever owns the protocol layer between agents and enterprise systems owns the distribution chokepoint.
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Agentic Receivables: The Back Office Is Where Agent Payments Get Real
Consumer agentic commerce is stalled on liability and mandate problems. B2B receivables is not, and that is where agent-initiated payments are shipping now.
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The AI Headcount Illusion: What Agents Actually Do to the Org Chart
Agents rarely shrink payrolls. They convert doing-work into checking-work, and winning org charts are redesigned around that conversion, not headcount.
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Seat Pricing Is Dying: How AI Is Repricing the Software Industry
AI agents break the per-seat model at the root. The pricing ladder replacing it, the failure modes of each rung, and the buyer playbook for the transition.
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