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How to give an agent a goal it can actually follow

Most agents fail because the goal is written badly. Here is how to fix that.

Nov 14, 2025 • Glen Smale

The agent thinking loop, explained in simple language

This is the loop that makes an agent feel alive.

Nov 14, 2025 • Glen Smale

What an AI agent actually is

Forget the noise. Here is the simple picture that finally makes sense of agents.

Nov 13, 2025 • Glen Smale

Are independent AI tools living on borrowed time?

Are we too busy building features to see they’re being built over?

Nov 12, 2025 • Glen Smale

This Week in AI

The real reason Bezos is dropping billions on AI nobody’s talking about yet

Bezos is back, poaching OpenAI talent and building AI that actually understands physics.

Nov 18, 2025 • Glen Smale

This Week in Security & Compliance

This is the first real case of AI being used in a cyber attack

The biggest AI story this week wasn’t the release of GPT-5.1. It was the cyber attack run on Claude.

Nov 16, 2025 • Glen Smale

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