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When OAuth Meets Agents: The Case for Intent-Based Authorization

For years, the standard way to give software access to an external service was OAuth — the protocol that lets you click "Sign in with Google" without handing your password…

Giuseppe Basile October 19, 2026

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Your AI Isn’t the Problem. Your Infrastructure Is.

The Lock on the Door For a while, the default assumption in AI security conversations was that a smarter, better-prompted model would eventually be careful enough not to cause damage.…

Giuseppe Basile October 18, 2026

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When Agents Authorize Each Other: The Hidden Permission Problem in AI Handoffs

For most of the past two years, the security conversation around AI agents focused on the human-to-agent boundary: what instructions a person gives, what data an agent can touch, what…

Giuseppe Basile October 17, 2026

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Keeping Up with AI Without Drowning in It

For a while, the standard advice for keeping up with AI was simply: follow the right people on social media and skim the rest. That worked when the field moved…

Giuseppe Basile October 17, 2026

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Why AI-Built Apps Break Under Use — and How Investigation Closes the Gap

A year or two ago the workflow seemed straightforward: describe a feature, let an AI coding assistant generate it, iterate until it looked right. The results were often impressive —…

Giuseppe Basile October 16, 2026

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Tokens Are the Cheap Part

For the past couple of years, "AI costs are exploding" has been a recurring anxiety in engineering budget conversations. Token spend (the amount paid to run AI models, measured in…

Giuseppe Basile October 14, 2026

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The On-Call Agent That Works Before You Show Up

When the Agent Acts First For most of the short history of AI coding assistants, the interaction model has been simple: a developer opens a chat, types a prompt, and…

Giuseppe Basile October 14, 2026

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Workflows, Not Autopilot: The Case for Constrained Agentic Systems

The drift toward "just let the agent decide" Early agentic systems often worked by giving a model a goal and a set of tools and watching what happened. The appeal…

Giuseppe Basile October 14, 2026

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When the Hard Task Goes Better Than the Easy One

When the Hard Task Goes Better Than the Easy One For years, the working assumption among practitioners has been that AI capability maps roughly onto human difficulty ordering. If something…

Giuseppe Basile October 14, 2026

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Three Levels of Agent Review: Catching Errors Before They Reach People

For most of 2024 and early 2025, the typical use of an AI agent was low-stakes enough that a wrong answer was just an annoyance. We asked agents to summarize,…

Giuseppe Basile October 14, 2026

The AI Engineer’s Job Has Changed: Building the Loop, Not Just the Feature

The Engineer as Bottleneck: Why Autonomous Agent Loops Are the Next Frontier

The Shared Environment: The Quiet Architecture Shift Behind Multi-Agent Pipelines

The IDE Is Not the Factory: Building an AI Development Loop That Ships

ELITE Agentic Engineers Are LEAVING THE LOOP… Here’s why

When the Bottleneck Is Not the Code: AI War Rooms for Legacy Modernization

When the AI Toolkit Becomes the Attack Vector: Lessons from the LiteLLM Incident

Executive Briefing: 10 Hours Saved by AI Don’t Become 10 Useful Hours on Their Own

Benchmarks Don’t Run Your Code: A Hands-On Model Comparison Across Six Scenarios

The Communication Gap: The Skill That Actually Scales With AI Agents

A Bank Built Its Own Coding Agent. Here Is What Actually Made It Work.

The Flywheel That Keeps Remaking the Agent Harness

How an AI Agent Earns the Right to Work Unsupervised

AI Makes Us WAY Faster but Fries Our Focus (Here’s What I Do About It)

Your Mac Mini Has a Roommate Now — and It Needs More Than 16 GB

Let Your AI Agent Do ITS OWN Harness Engineering (Here’s How)

The Harness Matters More Than the Model

When One Agent Is Not Enough: The Case for Multi-Agent Architectures

What It Takes to Know If Your AI Agent Actually Works

When Uptime Metrics Miss the Point: Evaluating AI Agents in High-Stakes Contexts

When OAuth Meets Agents: The Case for Intent-Based Authorization

Your AI Isn’t the Problem. Your Infrastructure Is.

When Agents Authorize Each Other: The Hidden Permission Problem in AI Handoffs

Keeping Up with AI Without Drowning in It

Why AI-Built Apps Break Under Use — and How Investigation Closes the Gap

Tokens Are the Cheap Part

The On-Call Agent That Works Before You Show Up

Workflows, Not Autopilot: The Case for Constrained Agentic Systems

When the Hard Task Goes Better Than the Easy One

Three Levels of Agent Review: Catching Errors Before They Reach People