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

For most of computing history, a personal computer had one user. You opened apps, closed them, and the machine waited. That assumption is quietly breaking down. Agents now run alongside…

Giuseppe Basile October 21, 2026

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

For most of software engineering history, "is it working?" had a reasonably clean answer: the service is up, requests succeed, latency is within budget. That answer breaks down for AI…

Giuseppe Basile October 19, 2026

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The AI Dark Factory Dream — Why It Fails and What Actually Works

The premise felt irresistible: give an AI agent a high-level feature spec, walk away, and come back to working software in production. No pull requests to review, no standups, no…

Giuseppe Basile October 19, 2026

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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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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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From Writing Code to Engineering Intent: What Software Skills Still Hold Up

The question of whether to learn software engineering has always carried a certain anxiety — every wave of new tooling prompts it. Compilers, IDEs, Stack Overflow, low-code platforms: each one…

Giuseppe Basile October 14, 2026

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Why AI Coding Agents Need a Memory Pipeline

There is a quiet inefficiency at the heart of how most teams use AI coding agents today. Each session starts fresh. The agent works through a problem, the human corrects…

Giuseppe Basile October 13, 2026

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Bigger Context Windows Won’t Save Your Agent — Context Engineering Will

For a while, the standard response to a flaky or forgetful AI agent was simple: give it more context. Longer windows meant the agent could hold more history, more tool…

Giuseppe Basile October 8, 2026

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The Gap Between 10% and 80%: What AI Support Agents Actually Require

For a long time, the working assumption in customer support automation was that getting 30 or 40 percent of tickets resolved without a human was a win worth celebrating. The…

Giuseppe Basile October 5, 2026

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Agents Split Your Software Into Three Parts. Which Layer Is Worth Keeping?

For most of the SaaS era, software came bundled. One subscription covered data storage, the screens people clicked through, and the workflow rules that moved work from one person to…

Giuseppe Basile October 1, 2026