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The Four Loops That Replaced Prompt Engineering
AI & Automation
· 4 min read

The Four Loops That Replaced Prompt Engineering

Tom Osman ran one autonomous loop that produced 183 user stories overnight. LangChain published the playbook: build the thing that prompts for you.

agentic AI systems AI agent loops prompt engineering
Block didn't buy a chatbot. It built a system.
AI & Automation
· 5 min read

Block didn't buy a chatbot. It built a system.

Block built Builderbot: tag it in Slack and it researches, plans and ships. 1,500 PRs a week, 15% of production code. The interface that wins is chat.

AI agents agent orchestration Block
Your AI Won't Get Bored Maintaining the Wiki. Or Verify It.
AI & Automation
· 5 min read

Your AI Won't Get Bored Maintaining the Wiki. Or Verify It.

Google formalized the Open Knowledge Format so agents can maintain your docs. It standardizes structure, not truth. That gap is the real problem.

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The Untrainable Ground: Owning the AI Benchmark
AI & Automation
· 7 min read

The Untrainable Ground: Owning the AI Benchmark

Anything on a public leaderboard gets trained against. The only AI advantage that does not expire is the definition of good that lives inside your company.

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The Meeting You Didn't Record Is Gone as AI Context
AI & Automation
· 6 min read

The Meeting You Didn't Record Is Gone as AI Context

David Haber at a16z: every unrecorded meeting is AI context you will never recover. Companies recording everything build a corpus no rival can access.

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The harness is the moat: the model is now commodity
AI & Automation
· 8 min read

The harness is the moat: the model is now commodity

Cursor, Devin, and Replit run the same three frontier models. Swap the model and the products keep working. Swap the harness and they break.

harness context engineering Aakash Gupta
The team whose reasoning is searchable
AI & Automation
· 12 min read

The team whose reasoning is searchable

Aakash Gupta named the system this week that we already run inside IQ Source: three layers that make a team's past reasoning queryable in 15 seconds.

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Karpathy Described a Vault. We Built a Nervous System.
AI & Automation
· 11 min read

Karpathy Described a Vault. We Built a Nervous System.

Karpathy's LLM Wiki hit 17M+ views describing memory. We have spent 18 days running the four layers around it: senses, nerves, immune system.

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