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AI EngineerYour Agent Improvement Strategy Is Incomplete Without Trace Mining
LangChain's research lead argues that agent improvement is a data mining problem. Trace data—tool calls, outputs, errors—is the signal for continuous…
AI EngineerAI memory has converged on profiles—context silos remain the real gap
After three years, ChatGPT and Claude converged on running profiles for memory—but made opposite compute tradeoffs. The real problem is context access, not…
AI EngineerAgent evaluations are broken: why you should stop chasing benchmarks
Agent evaluations are stuck in the past. Most teams still use methods from the chatbot era. Hylak argues for floor-raising: track the worst failures, not the…
Theo - t3․ggStop Blaming Models: Your Agent Prompts Are the Real Bottleneck
One engineer's deep dive into optimizing AI agent behavior through prompt engineering, not model upgrades. The secret: invest in failure analysis and…
InfoQCoding agents are making comprehension the new bottleneck for engineering teams.
Coding agents remove the gatekeeping around code production, but create a new bottleneck: comprehension. The speaker argues that the future belongs to…
AI EngineerWhy your coding agents fail in teams and how to fix it
Coding agents work for individuals but break in teams. The fix isn't better models or prompts—it's organizational investment in shared agent infrastructure.
Machine Learning Street TalkStop Predicting Tokens: Why Latent Space Training Could Change AI Economics
Deep networks don't need to memorize—they build hierarchical abstractions from data. New theory suggests latent-space prediction could be exponentially more…
Hugging FacePrompt Caching: The Hidden Cost Lever in AI Agents
Prompt caching is the difference between viable agents and budget-breaking sessions. Yet most teams undermine it with one mistake: dynamic system prompts…
AI EngineerVelocity Sickness: Why AI Speed Breaks Team Coordination
AI makes engineers faster, but teams suffer from 'velocity sickness'—output without impact. The solution: shift from code velocity to idea velocity by…
AI EngineerWhy Refactoring Now Beats Waiting for Better AI Agents
Should you refactor your legacy codebase now or wait for AI to improve? One team's experience shows the tradeoffs and why acting now still wins.
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