Agents

Real-time LLM guardrails with Jev: comparing latency and cost
Real-time LLM guardrails with Jev: comparing latency and cost

When everything looks like a nail: jev, intent detection, and everything old is new again
When everything looks like a nail: jev, intent detection, and everything old is new again

I’ve been watching a small model launch bounce around my feed this week, and it sent me down a …

SLMs for custom tasks: when small models beat frontier ones, and how to be sure
SLMs for custom tasks: when small models beat frontier ones, and how to be sure

On the first of September, Tobi Lütke, the CEO of Shopify, posted something on X that interested me: …

Don't delete your skills, audit them
Don't delete your skills, audit them

Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code and runs it at Anthropic, gave some advice recently that made …

A Skill Is Just an Agent. So Measure Your Changes.
A Skill Is Just an Agent. So Measure Your Changes.

TL;DR: A skill is just an agent, a prompt running in a harness, so you can test a change to it …

The Phoenix Project still holds up, even if you replaced all the code with agents
The Phoenix Project still holds up, even if you replaced all the code with agents

I reread The Phoenix Project last month. I do this every year or two — it’s one of those books …

Build a Star Wars Copilot in C# - Lesson 8: Agents and Orchestration
Build a Star Wars Copilot in C# - Lesson 8: Agents and Orchestration

Final lesson, and probably my favorite.

We move from a copilot with tools to a system that also uses …