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11 articles tagged with Agentic AI.

The Bitter Lesson Kills Your Orchestration Layer
AI Product Building

The Bitter Lesson Kills Your Orchestration Layer

Scaffolding gives you 10-20% gains that the next model wipes out. The bitter lesson for product builders: give the model tools and a goal, not a workflow.

7 Mar 20268 min read
The Winning Agent Had No Better Model. It Got Shit Done.
AI Product Building

The Winning Agent Had No Better Model. It Got Shit Done.

Weekend build to 145K GitHub stars to acquisition in weeks. The pattern: agents that execute locally instead of chatting in a browser window win on adoption.

27 Feb 20269 min read
Voice Agent Playbook: AI Phone Calls in Production
AI Product Building

Voice Agent Playbook: AI Phone Calls in Production

I built AI voice receptionists that handle real phone calls for real businesses. Latency, conversation flow, graceful handoff. Here's what actually matters.

24 Feb 202611 min read
Your Agent Evals Are Vibes. Here's How to Make Them Infrastructure.
AI Product Building

Your Agent Evals Are Vibes. Here's How to Make Them Infrastructure.

Most teams evaluate agents with manual chats and gut feel. A practical framework for eval suites that let you ship, starting with 20 examples, not 20,000.

9 Feb 202613 min read
The Cannibalisation Paradox: Why Per-Seat Pricing Dies in the Agentic Era
Enterprise AI Leadership

The Cannibalisation Paradox: Why Per-Seat Pricing Dies in the Agentic Era

If your AI roadmap succeeds, customers need fewer seats and you earn less revenue. The fix: price around the units of work completed, not user logins.

30 Jan 20269 min read
The Hard Hat Era: Your 2026 AI Strategy Is an Org Chart
Enterprise AI Leadership

The Hard Hat Era: Your 2026 AI Strategy Is an Org Chart

The shift is from prompt engineering to designing multi-agent hierarchies: AI managers overseeing AI workers that operate invisibly in the background.

24 Jan 202610 min read
Your AI Copilot Is a Margin Trap. Build for Replacement.
AI Product Building

Your AI Copilot Is a Margin Trap. Build for Replacement.

AI is not a feature, it is a new compute paradigm. Bolting GenAI onto legacy platforms destroys unit economics. If the AI is optional, it's a gimmick.

21 Jan 20268 min read
Text Is a Terrible Business Interface. Generative UI Wins.
AI Product Building

Text Is a Terrible Business Interface. Generative UI Wins.

Google's A2UI signals the end of the chatbot text wall. Agents that render native UI components instead of paragraphs change what product teams build.

18 Jan 20268 min read
Stop Building AI Agents. Start Building SOPs Wrapped in Code.
AI Product Building

Stop Building AI Agents. Start Building SOPs Wrapped in Code.

A 5-step agent at 95% accuracy per step is only 77% reliable. The path forward isn't better agents, it's narrower ones. Three rules for workflows that ship.

15 Jan 20268 min read
Google's Real Estate Listings: Why Aggregators Should Worry
AI Product Building

Google's Real Estate Listings: Why Aggregators Should Worry

Google is testing native property listings in search. AI broke the constraint that stopped them in 2011. The aggregator model dies when the user is an agent.

12 Jan 20268 min read
3 Agentic AI Patterns from Google's Playbook
AI Product Building

3 Agentic AI Patterns from Google's Playbook

Strip the vendor marketing from Google's AI Agent Handbook and three stack-agnostic architectural patterns emerge that every product builder should steal.

30 Dec 20257 min read