The Loop Is the Product
The agent as a loop a team builds, with the model as one node.
Agents as systems: tools, memory, planning, safety
The agent as a loop a team builds, with the model as one node.
Chain-of-thought, self-consistency, and the check that must live outside the model.
ReAct's loop, and the action space that decides how much guessing remains.
The three hidden decisions a framework must surface to earn its keep.
Grounding, the enterprise failure budget, and answers a company can act on.
DSPy's trade: a signature and a metric in place of prompt folklore.
SWE-agent's finding that the interface, held model constant, moves the score.
The replayable tape that makes a workflow agent auditable and repairable.
Language for intent, solvers for constraints, and the translation that breaks.
What irreversible actions demand: a data pyramid, a simulator, and honest feedback.
Same model, different scores, and the scaffold disclosure that makes results science.
A gate that works needs an eval, a threshold, a mitigation, and an owner who can refuse.
Prompt injection as the native attack, and the architecture that separates channels.