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11 articles about ai-agents - lessons from building and scaling real software.
ArticleRead more11 min readWebMCP: Make Your Site Agent-Ready Without a Separate MCP Server
WebMCP lets your web app register typed tools for browser agents with document.modelContext.registerTool. No separate MCP server. Here's how it works, and when you still need one.
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ArticleRead more11 min readScheduling Mastra Agents: A Weekly Report That Delivers Itself to Slack
Schedule a Mastra agent with a scheduled workflow: declarative cron, date ranges in code, an evidence check, and a Slack post the model can't trigger.
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ArticleRead more9 min readWhat a Fractional CTO Costs in 2026 When Agents Make Senior Judgment Go Further
Fractional CTO pricing in 2026 ranges from about $3K per month at the low end to $15K+ per month for ongoing architecture review, delivery guidance, and production judgment. The important change is that a senior human can use agents to turn decisions into reviewed implementation faster without handing judgment to the model.
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ArticleRead more11 min readAgent Loops vs. Workflows: The Boundary That Makes AI Reliable
Most AI demos hand one agent the whole job. When the output touches reputation, money, or outbound email, use a workflow instead of an agent loop. Here's where the boundary goes, built with Mastra.
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ArticleRead more10 min readHarness Engineering: The 4 Levers Behind Almost Every Agent Failure
When an agent fails, harness engineering gives you four levers (Context, Tools, Loop, Governance) to find which one broke in under a minute.
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ArticleRead more10 min readHuman-in-the-Loop Agent Approvals: A Mastra Pattern
Prompt-based approval gates fail because the model decides whether to ask. Mastra's requireApproval primitive removes that decision entirely. Here's how to implement it.
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ArticleRead more10 min readYour AI Team Doesn't Need More People — It Needs Agents
What 'supported by a fleet of agents' means in practice: which tasks automate, which don't, and where the ROI breaks down. Evidence from Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and Shopify.
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ArticleRead more12 min readGoverning AI Agents Without Killing Them: What Actually Works in Production
Most AI agent governance advice targets boards, not builders. Three failure patterns, real TypeScript examples, and what a CTO should do Monday morning.
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Shrinking a Production Prompt by 28% With Autonomous Optimization
How I used autoresearch to run 65 autonomous prompt optimization iterations on a production LLM agent, cutting it 28% while retaining 98% output quality.
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Four Dimensions of Agent-Ready Codebase Design
AI agents produce better output when the codebase is ready for them. Here are the four dimensions of codebase readiness that account for most of the gap.
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ArticleRead more12 min readHow AI Agents Remember Things
AI agents are stateless by default. Here's how memory systems actually work, covering the storage patterns, lifecycle triggers, and architecture behind agents that remember you.
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