
Going beyond the chat
Replace the repeatable parts of your work with an agent workflow while keeping judgment, accountability, and consequential actions in human hands.
Notes on the work that repeats, what is worth automating, and what should stay with you.

Replace the repeatable parts of your work with an agent workflow while keeping judgment, accountability, and consequential actions in human hands.

Separate model, provider, product, and harness, then choose among closed APIs, open weights, and local inference for the work you actually have.

Computer use, sandboxes, subagents, evals, and permissions can extend an agent's reach. They also create new ways to fail.

Models do not become agents by declaration. An agent needs a loop, tools, instructions, state, permissions, and software to hold it together.

Retrieval, embeddings, fine-tuning, reasoning, and reinforcement learning solve different problems. Here is how to tell them apart.

Follow one message through prompts, context, files, memory, tools, and output, then put that knowledge to work with better prompting.

A practical explanation of AI, language models, tokens, training, and inference without pretending the model is the whole product.

A plain-English glossary for understanding AI, agents, skills, harnesses, frontier models, and the rest of the vocabulary people keep throwing around.