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CTO, father, husband, tinkerer

Boston, MA
Joined August 2009
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Should a cheap model run your agent's loop, with an expensive advisor on the hard calls? One planner, five questions, a handoff contract at the end. best-pieces-week-4.theroost.… All content glory to the original poster, Harrison Guo.
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95% per step sounds safe — until you multiply it across 10 steps. Drag the sliders, watch the math. best-pieces-week-4.theroost.… All content glory to the original poster, Flavius Dinu.
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95% per step sounds safe — until you multiply it across 10 steps. Drag the sliders, watch the math. best-pieces-week-4.theroost.… All content glory to the original poster, Flavius Dinu.
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Can your agent platform survive a second team? One checklist, ten questions, a go/no-go verdict. best-pieces-week-4.theroost.… All content glory to the original poster, Kevin Evans.
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Which change strategy fits your team? Six frameworks, one picker — Kotter, ADKAR, 7-S, and three more, matched to how your team actually changes. best-pieces-week-4.theroost.… All content glory to the original poster, Augment Code.
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12 AI essays rebuilt as tools. Top pick per stage — explore, pilot, scale, embed — plus one honorable mention. best-pieces-week-4.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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I am AFRAID of AI. Not because it's too smart, but because we keep giving it send and delete buttons with no human check. Happy Halloween 🎃 #AI #AIagents #Halloween
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3,100 words on MCP security, compressed into a 5-minute server audit. Kunal Ganglani's checklist, rebuilt as an audit — run your setup against all 12 items, gaps prioritized. best-pieces-week-3.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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Would your agent survive a prompt-injection attempt? I Plus T Solution's defense playbook, rebuilt as a test. Throw the attacks at your setup before someone else does. best-pieces-week-3.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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Black October! Would your agent survive a prompt-injection attempt? I Plus T Solution's defense playbook, rebuilt as a test. Throw the attacks at your setup before someone else does. best-pieces-week-3.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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Building AI Agents: Lessons from the Trenches architg.me/blog/2026/01/buil… via @0xArchitG Loved the lessons-from-the-trenches piece — the simple-loop-first rule and the four patterns that actually work are the honest version of production advice. Turned it into an interactive explorable — eight questions check whether your agent is a demo or production-ready, all clickable: production-agent-check-w4.th… Structured outputs, backoff, observability, escape hatches — all four patterns are in there as checks. Standout pieces get featured in our weekly best-of roundup.
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Skills are software. Will yours survive? @cspenn's skill audit — 5 levels, 5P framework, 3 eval gates — as a tap-through check. best-pieces-week-3.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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Should you even build the agent? The 6-gate test from abuqitmirlabs: run your idea through the gates before you burn weeks on it. best-pieces-week-3.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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15 AI essays rebuilt as tools. Top pick per adoption stage — explore, pilot, scale, embed — plus one honorable mention. best-pieces-week-3.theroost.… @cspenn All content glory to the original posters.
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You ain’t gonna read all these AI papers. I make them explorable and rank them every week. Save some time and stay in the loop.
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Is this how HR will rate employees on AI capability? Can AI capability really be lined up single-file? Probably not. Entropy Clinic's HACT framework: rate your human-AI setup on five coordinates, see your vector against six archetypes. No total score, by design. best-pieces-week-2.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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Using Claude Code? Here's how to tell if your setup is actually dialed in. Maryam Miradi's 9-feature roadmap — CLAUDE.md to MCP servers — as a tap-through audit. Get your verdict and a prioritized queue. best-pieces-week-2.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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Piloting AI agents is easy. Going from pilot to portfolio is the hard part. The Strategy Stack's rollout playbook, rebuilt as a planner: 7-question self-check, readiness stage, week-by-week 90-day plan. best-pieces-week-2.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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Your prompt isn't working — probably one of six fixable mistakes. @addyosmani's prompt playbook: 7 principles, 3 scenarios, 6 anti-patterns, rebuilt as a tool. Paste your prompt in, get the rewrite. best-pieces-week-2.theroost.… All content glory to the original posters.
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17 AI essays rebuilt as tools. Top pick per stage — embed, pilot, scale, explore — plus one honorable mention. best-pieces-week-2.theroost.… @addyosmani @RichardMCNgo @TomDavidsonX @DKokotajlo @jerryjliu0 @simonw @swyx @decisionleader All content glory to the original posters.
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