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Your Flaky Tests Aren't Flaky
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Your Flaky Tests Aren't Flaky

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I Planned 10 LLM Evaluation Experiments And Only Ran 1. It Was Enough.
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I Planned 10 LLM Evaluation Experiments And Only Ran 1. It Was Enough.

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I Thought Building Agent Observability Was a Detector Problem. I Was Wrong.
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Real production data broke 35 detectors instantly

I Thought Building Agent Observability Was a Detector Problem. I Was Wrong.

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I Built Scenario Packs for Agent Regression Testing. The Integration, Not the Judge, Broke Me.
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Adapters need conformance suites too

I Built Scenario Packs for Agent Regression Testing. The Integration, Not the Judge, Broke Me.

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I Stopped Trusting AI Agents With Tools. So I Built a Gatekeeper.
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83 real agents tested zero mocks

I Stopped Trusting AI Agents With Tools. So I Built a Gatekeeper.

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I Shipped an Agent Gatekeeper (v0.1). 14 Developers Showed Me What I Missed. Here's v0.2 — a Control Plane.
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I Shipped an Agent Gatekeeper (v0.1). 14 Developers Showed Me What I Missed. Here's v0.2 — a Control Plane.

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9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System
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Silent statistical traps in self-improving loops

9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System

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I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own Prompts — Its Safety Gate Rejected Every Single Edit
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I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own Prompts — Its Safety Gate Rejected Every Single Edit

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I Let an LLM Rewrite Its Own Prompt. The Real Win Was the Gate That Rejected It.
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I Let an LLM Rewrite Its Own Prompt. The Real Win Was the Gate That Rejected It.

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My Agent Found Real Improvements. The Statistics Still Killed the Promotion.
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My Agent Found Real Improvements. The Statistics Still Killed the Promotion.

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I Tried 4 Models to Save My Self-Improving Agent. All 4 Failed.
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I Tried 4 Models to Save My Self-Improving Agent. All 4 Failed.

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When Your Benchmark Finally Tells the Truth
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When Your Benchmark Finally Tells the Truth

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We Could Have Shipped on Local Models Alone
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We Could Have Shipped on Local Models Alone

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A Better Model Improved the Numbers. It Didn't Fix the Product.
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A Better Model Improved the Numbers. It Didn't Fix the Product.

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The 6-Line Fix That Outperformed My Entire Matcher Week
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The 6-Line Fix That Outperformed My Entire Matcher Week

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My 3B Model Found a Shortcut. It Took Me Three Fixes to Close It.
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My 3B Model Found a Shortcut. It Took Me Three Fixes to Close It.

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I Tried to Poison My Agent's Rule Store. It Produced 20 Triggers. Zero Got In.
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I Tried to Poison My Agent's Rule Store. It Produced 20 Triggers. Zero Got In.

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