Hands-on writing about the software people actually build and ship with — agents, frameworks, orchestration layers, and the plumbing underneath. Minus the hype: what survives contact with real deadlines.

A Field Guide to the New Agent Stack

Planners, memory layers, tool routers — the parts everyone ships and nobody names the same way. A working taxonomy for the components that make up a modern AI agent.

Benchmarks Are Quietly Lying to You

A model that tops the leaderboard and a model that helps you are increasingly two different things. How to evaluate tools for what you actually need, not what the paper claims.