Handoff reports on autonomous software: the systems that plan, call tools and act without a person in the loop, and the unglamorous work of keeping them running. Four beats: orchestration, evaluation, tooling and cost. Covered for the people who operate this software rather than the people who sell it.
The name is the point. Almost every interesting failure in an agent system happens at a boundary: between a model and a tool, between one step and the next, between the machine and the human who has to take over. That is where we look.
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Articles here are signed by a desk, not by a person. Four desks cover the four beats, and every article names the one responsible for it.
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