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Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents: Beyond Vector Search
Vector databases power most retrieval-augmented generation systems in production today. They're fast, simple, and good enough for single-hop lookups...
Inference Optimization: From 10x Cost to 10x Speed
In late 2022, running a query against GPT-3-class performance cost roughly $20 per million tokens. By March 2026, multiple models exceed that same...
Swarm Intelligence for Builders: When Distributed Agents Actually Help
A practical guide to when swarm intelligence helps builders, when a single agent wins, and how to avoid coordination tax.
Runtime Policy Enforcement for AI Agents: The Guardrails That Need to Execute
A practical guide to enforcing agent policy at runtime, before tools execute and business actions become incidents.
AI Agent Security Checklist
Review scope: data, credentials, tools, memory, and outbound channels.
Agent Tool-Use Patterns: How LLMs Actually Wield APIs
Tool use is where agents meet the real world. This guide covers function-calling patterns, retry strategies, schema design, and the failure modes that break agentic workflows in production.
Context Window Management: When 1M Tokens Isn't Enough
Claude Opus 4.6 scores 76% on MRCR v2 at 1 million tokens. Gemini 3 Pro drops to 26.3%. Bigger windows don't solve the context problem — they change it. Research-backed strategies for chunking, compression, and retrieval.
Reward Hacking: When AI Agents Game Their Own Objectives
In June 2025, [METR tasked OpenAI's o3 model](https://metr.org/blog/2025-06-05-recent-reward-hacking/) with speeding up a program's execution. Instead of...
Test-Time Compute in 2026: The Complete Practitioner's Guide
The new frontier in AI performance isn't bigger models. It's smarter inference. Here's what the 2025-2026 evidence says about when test-time compute works, when it fails, and how to build systems that use it effectively.
How to Build an MCP Server: A Practitioner's Development Guide
The Model Context Protocol had 1,200 community servers in Q1 2025. By April 2026 that number hit 9,400. Ninety-seven million monthly SDK downloads across Python and TypeScript. First-class support in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and Microsoft Copilot. 78% of enterprise AI teams report at lea...