agent design – Cogni ● Flow

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

For most of the past two years, the default mental model for AI agents looked like this: one agent, one task, one context window. That worked fine for short, well-scoped…

Giuseppe Basile October 19, 2026

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Tell Agents What, Not How

From Instructions to Intentions For a while, the standard move when building an AI workflow was to write out every step. Get this URL. Parse that JSON. If the field…

Giuseppe Basile October 19, 2026

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Code Explanation with Claude

The frustration and need from consulting and enterprise products builders has been building for a while. We use AI coding assistants or harnesses, like Claude Code, and obtain something that…

Giuseppe Basile October 8, 2026

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Agent Infrastructure Is Solved. Now Comes the Context Problem.

The Infrastructure Tax Two years ago, building a production-grade required infrastructure: state persistence, sandbox isolation, observability across disconnected systems. A small team could dedicate 3 months just on that. Such…

Giuseppe Basile August 22, 2026

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The Part of the Loop Your Agent Shouldn’t Own

There’s a moment in most agent deployments where someone asks the wrong question. They ask: "How much can this agent handle on its own?" That's not the useful question. The…

Giuseppe Basile July 29, 2026

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You Can Build 80% of Your Own AI Memory by Talking to the Agent Already on Your Computer

For a long time, the main complaint about AI assistants was that they were not capable enough. They hallucinated, they forgot the thread, they could not take a meaningful action…

Giuseppe Basile May 3, 2026

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Five Hours a Week: The Two Questions That Find the Automation Worth Building

The version worth keeping is the selection question, not the tool. For a long time, the conversation in our teams about AI automation followed a predictable arc: someone showed a…

Giuseppe Basile April 12, 2026

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The Harness Is the Product: What a 36-Point Performance Gap Tells Us About AI Architecture

When that benchmark first surfaced a few months ago, it warranted a second read. Same model — Claude Opus 4.5, identical weights — scored 78 percent on one evaluation harness…

Giuseppe Basile March 17, 2026

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Your AI credentials don’t matter. Your artifacts do.

For a while, the conventional assumption was that the way into the AI job market was to learn more tools. Take another course, get another badge, add "prompt engineering" to…

Giuseppe Basile March 11, 2026