Agents

AI and the creeping enshittification of work

30 August 2025

LLMs can make us more productive, but they may also be making us bland… if you can’t be bothered to write something, do you expect somebody to read it?

Design trade-offs for conversational AI agents

10 June 2025

Agents are among the most IO bound applications you are likely to build, while conversational, ‘chat’-style interfaces bring extra constraints into play.

Implementing complex workflows in AI Agents

21 April 2025

Although AI agents are capable of independent reasoning, their capricious nature can make it difficult to implement more detailed and rigorous workflow processes

Why building AI-powered agents is so challenging. For now.

3 February 2024

Despite growing excitement about the potential for AI-driven agents, there are a lot of problems to solve before we can build agent-based architectures on any scale…