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Start Cheap, Spend Precisely: A Two-Step Pattern for AI-Assisted Knowledge Work

For most of the past two years, the default move with a capable AI model has been to dial everything up — more reasoning, more depth, more tokens — on…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile September 5, 2026
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Eleven Small Fixes That Make Coding Agents Actually Reliable

There is a pattern that shows up consistently when teams start integrating coding agents into their workflows. The first instinct is to look for a wholesale transformation — a new…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile September 1, 2026
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Cost Per Accepted Result To Comparing AI Models

In the early stages of the agentic-AI era, is easy to assume that the most important aspect  about a model is: how good is it? The answer still shapes decisions:…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile August 22, 2026
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The System Prompt Is Still the Real Work

For a while, prompt engineering carried a slightly mystical reputation — the right phrasing in the right place, and the model would behave. Then the models got substantially better, and…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile August 19, 2026
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The Case for Deleting Your AI Layer (And What to Actually Cut)

When practitioners first adopted coding agents like Claude Code, the instinct was to write rules for everything. Spell out every convention. Patch every reasoning gap. The `CLAUDE.md` file became a…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile August 12, 2026
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Stop Prompting. Start Briefing.

The problem isn't your prompts. It's that you're still thinking in prompts at all. When you treat AI like a smart search engine — type a request, see what comes…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile July 27, 2026
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Better Thinking, Broken Delivery: What 5,000 Extra Words Taught Me About AI Instructions

There is a version of the "more is better" instinct that feels entirely reasonable when you are building with AI. You have a capable model, you have hard-won lessons about…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile June 16, 2026
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Before You Build the Automation, Let the Agent Find the Problem

Most early work with AI agents follows a familiar pattern: the task is already known, the prompt gets written, the agent executes it. That felt productive. What goes unnoticed for…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile June 16, 2026
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Intelligence that pushes back is more useful than intelligence that flatters

Shaping the flow of ideas at the frontier of cognitive systems. --- Claude was trained to disagree with you. Not to be difficult — to be accurate. Constitutional AI, the…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile June 3, 2026
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AI Agents Don’t Need to Be Trustworthy. They Need an Audit.

For a long time, the default stance was to wait for the reliability problem to get solved. Every model release brought better benchmarks, fewer hallucinations, more coherent reasoning. And still,…
Posted by Giuseppe Basile May 20, 2026

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