AI Agents & Automation

I'm running five AI agents in production. None of them are the ambient "does your whole job" kind...

How Kardashev-Scale resource efficiency and autonomous AI loops can transform raw space debris into self-repairing generation ships. Continue reading on Medium

Table names are not business context. An AI database agent can see orders, subscriptions, events,...

A safe query can still return unsafe context. The SQL might be read-only. The role might be...

This is not a thought experiment. This is not "what would happen if..." This actually happened. For the past 30 days, I've been running PaperclipAI — a real com

By An Nguyen — May 17, 2026 Continue reading on Medium »

What this article answers (plain language): A task is a discrete unit of work, defined upfront, executed once, completed. Continue reading on Medium »

Can ChatGPT Image and NanoBanana actually decode Elliott Wave patterns that human analysts spend years mastering? Continue reading on Medium »

We just shipped A3M Router v2.0.0 — the biggest update since launch. What started as a simple routing library is now a full AI Gateway. What's New 1. OpenAI-Com

SaaStr replaced 13 employees with 3 people + 20 AI agents. Two AI VPs cost $254/month against ~$500K of human cost. Stripped of the shock value, here are six pr

Anthropic's June 15th pricing change is not just a billing update. It changes where Claude personal...

The core counterargument to my three directory sites is Google's own AI Overviews. Here's the falsifiable 6-month bet I'm making and what would prove me wrong.

On Hyperspace, basic swarms, the math nobody wrote down, and why we built the thing they were...

Why the Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence Will Change Human Life Forever Continue reading on Medium »

Your Next Customer Won't Click. They'll Delegate. The commerce interface is...

"A database administrator's honest investigation into whether the new wave of AI automation...

On Hyperspace, basic swarms, the math nobody wrote down, and why we built the thing they were missing in a single afternoon. Continue reading on Medium »

Databricks Genie is powerful — but it’s only as accurate as the context you give it. Over the past few months, I’ve been exploring how to… Continue reading on M

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just about chatbots answering questions or tools generating images. Continue reading on Medium »

Orchestrating AI agents breaks in the boring place of all: between issuing a tool call and the tool call having its intended side effect. As tool calls transiti

There’s been a big mis-selling in Agentic AI implementation. People compare its implementation to software enablement. But this breaks when the agent can change

The difference between the leading agentic coding models is much smaller than the difference between two distinct configurations of a single model on the same b

Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri.

The Last Interface — Essay I Continue reading on Medium »

AI coding agents are becoming part of everyday engineering workflows. They can run commands, inspect logs, summarize failures, and help… Continue reading on Med

Another version of the same note is here https://alexsmail.blogspot.com/2026/05/ai-agents-fundamentals-2025.html Continue reading on Medium »

Modern software systems do not fail the way they used to. Continue reading on Medium »

Software engineering already learned a painful lesson once: when dependencies are unmanaged, systems...

OpenAI Symphony is an agent orchestrator that uses project-management tools, like issue trackers, as a control plan to coordinate multiple coding agents. Instea

What happens when a machine makes you feel seen before it has earned your trust. Continue reading on CogniCuisine »

A practical follow-up on turning agent instructions into focused, testable workflows. Continue reading on Medium »

AI agents are helpful, not malicious. That's what makes them dangerous around secrets. Here's an MCP server that catches secret exposure before the agent gets t

The Problem Nobody Was Solving As a corp dev lead, I spent weeks doing the same thing after every deal: assembling the cross-domain picture from siloed advisor

A ringing phone is the lifeblood of most Australian businesses. But what happens when you can't answer it? For many small to medium enterprises, a missed call m

Building AI Quality Checks for Construction Billing: Lessons from Real Pay Application...

AI agents are easy to demo when they follow a clean path: receive a task, call a tool, produce an...

Engineering an autonomous educational ecosystem using React, Node.js, Valkey, BullMQ, Pinecone RAG, and adaptive scheduling.

The tech landscape is experiencing a significant transformation as we transition from generative AI chatbots, which rely on human prompts… Continue reading on M

Most developers spent 2023 and 2024 experimenting with AI-assisted code completion and chat...

In March 2025 I wired up my first long-form content agent. One prompt. A 2000 word target. A list of...

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently taken charge of the company’s product strategy, merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into

What gets automated in the SOC, what stays, and how the org chart should be redesigned around the human work that AI can’t do. Continue reading on Medium »

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The Model Context Protocol is becoming the standard for connecting AI agents to external tools. It’s both a workflow accelerator and a new… Continue reading on

A technical perspective on why chip design workflows challenge the limits of generalized AI systems — and the seven structural reasons… Continue reading on Medi

The Most Important Educational Debate of the AI Era Continue reading on Medium »

The pull request review is where a lot of AI code tools stop being useful. You ask one model to read a 40-file diff, it returns six surface comments — formattin

Connecting MCP servers to Claude Code or Cursor silently injects 55K+ tokens of tool definitions into every turn. Here's the real cost — and how to cut it.