Agents
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- Agents & Tooling
Skills, then agents, then context
Google is turning Gems into skills. If a big AI job overwhelms your team, break it into simple steps, write each as a skill, and put an agent in charge of running them.
- Agents & Tooling
Did you or did you not?
Decision models are getting cheaper, so more people will be handed one. They pick from allowed answers but still give probabilities and can change between runs, so send the unsure cases to a person.
- Agents & Tooling
Steam saved a 60 fps cap for 112 games. The Performance panel still showed 144
An AI agent changed a setting on my Legion Go, and Steam's config file showed it saved. A screenshot of the settings panel showed it hadn't taken effect. Anything new or recently adjusted needs oversight.
- Agents & Tooling
Give a shared AI assistant a weekly checkup, and keep what it adds terse
Once a week, ask the assistant your team shares what would improve its instructions. Keep any rules it adds succinct, and give the bot two human owners.
- Agents & Tooling
Plan big, do small
A big model should plan the work and find the tools, libraries and free databases that already exist. Smaller models, or programs on your own computer, do what I like to call the donkey work.
- Agents & Tooling
School family knowledge base, part 2
Part 2 of a build log about a school family knowledge base: what information each of the eight sources holds, and the format it arrives in.
- Agents & Tooling
School family knowledge base, part 1
Schools send us information in eight places. That's a lot of channels for parents to coordinate and understand. Part 1 of a build log: the main issue, and how the tasks have to be broken down.
- Security & Risk
An Agent Needs a Stopping Point
A failed connection or a missing file should have a defined outcome. My inbox cleanup and Anthropic’s latest report offer a practical way to specify it.
- Agents & Tooling
The Infinite Sandwich and the Made Bed
Why Systems Thinking Is Your Real AI Superpower
- Agents & Tooling
OpenClaw versus Paperclip
I tried OpenClaw to coordinate agents from a Rabbit R1 and it turned into engineering for engineering's sake. I went back to Paperclip, and it is getting a lot better.
- Agents & Tooling
The difference between skills and context
A skill is the reusable instructions for doing a job. Context is the material that goes into this particular job. I use my one-panel cartoon Gem as the example.
- Agents & Tooling
Stupid Gemini Tricks: One Panel Comics
A quick and dirty Gemini Gem demo on creating one-panel comics.
- Security & Risk
Meta's Muse asks for a lot of trust
Meta's Muse agent connects to your email, calendar, payments and health services, trains on your conversations by default, and has already shared a user's home address with a Marketplace buyer.
- Agents & Tooling
They're the same video
OpenAI's new 'Get things done with voice mode' video is oddly similar to this SNL parody.
- Agents & Tooling
Dumb Little Robots, All the Way Down
A team gave one agent the whole job of pulling in data, analysing it and reporting on it. Its context window filled up and it lost track of its purpose.
- Agents & Tooling
Space to be human
A week of new school routines and a storm and flood, and what I needed was space to be human.
- Security & Risk
OpenAI's Agents Turned a Documentation Build Step Into Remote Code Execution
Independent researchers reconstructed how OpenAI's own agents ran code on RubyDoc.info's servers in May, from public package data alone.
- Agents & Tooling
Why I left the Mac for Omarchy after 25 years
After 25 years with Macs, I moved my daily work to Omarchy. The switch showed me why openness and control matter more to me now.
- Agents & Tooling
What OpenAI says its 10,000-agent maths run proved
OpenAI says an unreleased model and thousands of coordinated agents found a Navier–Stokes blow-up proof. The result is public; acceptance is still to come.
