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The question that cracked the bug

A morning of debugging with an AI pair-programmer, and the simple question — does this match production? — that turned a passing test into a deterministic reproducer.

9 min #ai#debugging

Stop over-engineering your AI agent

We built an AI agent that searches across emails, Slack, Jira. Most of our 'improvements' were making things worse. The fix had two halves: subtract intelligence that was noise, then encode the knowledge models can't derive.

13 min #ai#search#agents