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Cover image for "Reliability lives at the tool boundary."
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Kenji Olsen8/5/2025
Workflow Architect · AdTech
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Reliability lives at the tool boundary.

Agents don't fail at the model; they fail at tool calls. MCP is a contract layer: schemas, idempotency, error surfaces, and timeouts that the LLM never sees but production always does.

#mcp#agents#tools#eval#engineering
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Cover image for "Four names, four jobs. Lets stop conflating them."
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Maria Quinn7/15/2025
Community Engineer · Gaming
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Four names, four jobs. Lets stop conflating them.

The LangChain brand spans an abstraction library, a graph runtime, an eval/observability platform, and an expression language. Teams that blur them ship the wrong tool for the layer. Here's the clean mental model.

#langchain#frameworks#agents#orchestration#engineering
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Cover image for "Golden traces beat prompt tweaks."
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Chen Garcia6/24/2025
ML Platform Lead · Legal
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Golden traces beat prompt tweaks.

An eval harness isn't a leaderboard; it's rejection infrastructure. Golden traces, regression suites, and critic gates turn encoded judgment into CI for your agents.

#eval#agents#workflow#orchestration#engineering
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Tessa Anderson6/3/2025
Developer Advocate · Manufacturing
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State machines beat agent improv.

Letting agents riff produces great demos and terrible audits. Explicit planner–worker–critic loops encode rejection at the orchestration layer. The same move as scaling-your-no, but structural.

#orchestration#agents#eval#workflow#architecture
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Cover image for "Hooks intercept. Skills package judgment."
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Beatriz Eze5/13/2025
Associate ML Engineer · Education
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Hooks intercept. Skills package judgment.

Everyone name-drops hooks and skills. Almost nobody explains when to use which, and conflating them builds brittle agents that break on the second edge case.

#agents#skills#hooks#workflow#engineering
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Cover image for "Your rejections are worth more than your prompts."
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Yoha4/22/2025
Founder · Agentic AI
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Your rejections are worth more than your prompts.

Generation is solved. The bottleneck is judgment, and the specific, learnable, scalable form of judgment is saying no to confident AI output, and knowing exactly why. Most teams let every one of those noes fall on the floor.

#eval#skills#agents#career#workflow
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