Tag: agents
All the articles with the tag "agents".
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You can't measure a memory hook by the times it spoke
I tagged sixty hook activations, concluded retrieval was fine, and wrote down a verdict. Then I measured the prompts where the hook said nothing at all, and the number flipped.
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The optimization you wrote isn't the one that runs
I had the optimization written and approved, and a week later it still wasn't what ran. The fix wasn't a better design. It was making the trigger deterministic and leaving the judgment to the model.
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Give the agent the real source of truth
An AI setup I call MARCO placed 26 drainage culverts into our road-design software from a one-column list. The speed wasn't the interesting part. What mattered was finding which file held the real toe of the slope, and turning the fix into a reusable skill.
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Anatomy of a four-minute boot
Where my Claude Code sessions actually spent their first four minutes, and what cut it to thirty seconds without losing any context. Hooks were three seconds of the problem. The model's diligence was the rest.