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The Missing Layer in Agentic AI

The day two problem Imagine you deploy an autonomous AI agent to production. Day one is a success: The demos are fantastic; the reasoning is sharp. But before handing over real authority, uncomfortable questions emerge.… 

Spotting and Avoiding ROT in Your Agentic AI

The following article originally appeared on Q McCallum’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Generative AI agents and rogue traders pose similar insider threats to their employers. Specifically, we can expect… 

The Missing Mechanisms of the Agentic Economy

For the past two years, I’ve been working with economist Ilan Strauss at the AI Disclosures Project. We started out by asking what regulators would need to know to ensure the safety of AI products… 

Beyond Code Review

Not that long ago, we were resigned to the idea that humans would need to inspect every line of AI-generated code. We’d do it personally, code reviews would always be part of a serious software… 

Keep Deterministic Work Deterministic

This is the second article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, and look for the next article on April 2 on O’Reilly Radar. The first 90 percent of… 

What Is the PARK Stack?

Background: Stacks with four-letter acronyms According to Wikipedia, the LAMP stack was coined in 1998 by Michael Kunze to describe what had emerged as a popular open source software stack for websites. When the World… 

Stop Closing the Door. Fix the House.

The following article originally appeared on Angie Jones’s website and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I’ve been seeing more and more open source maintainers throwing up their hands over AI-generated pull requests.…