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AgentsAI agent guardrails vs. evals: How to build more reliable agent systems
Guardrails constrain what an agent can do in code; evals judge whether it performed well. Learn how both layers—and the harness around them—make long-running AI agents reliable. Aaron Winston August 13, 2026 9 min read -
AgentsHamel Husain explains why AI evals fail before the evaluation begins
Hamel Husain explains why ambiguous inputs, generic metrics, and disconnected review workflows can make AI evaluations misleading, and how developers can build a better process around real production… Sara Verdi July 30, 2026 7 min read -
AgentsHow to write effective AI agent skills: 6 data-backed practices
Three recent studies show what actually makes an AI agent skill effective: human expertise, compact procedures, tight routing, harness-specific testing, and eval-gated changes—not longer Markdown. Laurie Voss July 24, 2026 11 min read -
AgentsCost per successful task: Benchmarking Kimi K3, GPT-5.5, and 8 more AI models
Arize and Fireworks benchmarked 10 AI models across 2,400 agent runs. Learn why cost per successful task beats token price for model evaluation and routing. Laurie Voss July 23, 2026 16 min read -
AgentsHow OpenAI uses human feedback to evaluate and improve LLMs
At ChatGPT scale, user frustration arrives as support tickets, ratings, social posts, and corrections buried inside conversations. OpenAI built a feedback system that can find the pattern behind… Sara Verdi July 21, 2026 13 min read -
AgentsInside Cursor’s agent factory: how it verifies AI-written code
As background agents take on more implementation work, Cursor is rebuilding the software development lifecycle around risk scores, developer-like environments, video evidence, and review systems that learn from… Sara Verdi July 20, 2026 10 min read -
AgentsKiro CLI observability: trace and evaluate agent changes with Arize Skills
Use Arize Skills with Kiro CLI to trace coding-agent changes, build datasets from failures, run experiments, and validate prompts before shipping. Richard Young July 15, 2026 11 min read -
AgentsFrom human-operated agent development to systematic agent improvement
At Observe 2026, Jason Lopatecki and Aparna Dhinakaran described the shift from human-operated agent development to systematic agent improvement—and what builders should change in their stacks first. Sara Verdi July 14, 2026 10 min read -
Agents3 production patterns for AI agents and how to evaluate each one
A local coding agent, an in-app customer assistant, and an AI SRE triaging production logs may all use the same model class—but not the same harness, eval plan,… Sara Verdi July 10, 2026 9 min read -
AgentsWhat is a loop in AI engineering, anyway?
The AI engineering world is using “loop” to describe several different agent architectures. This post maps execution loops, task loops, product loops, system loops, and the human oversight… Aparna Dhinakaran Laurie Voss July 10, 2026 10 min read -
AgentsTrace before you migrate: Measuring Kubernetes bottlenecks in AI agent sandboxes
Kubernetes is strong for long-lived services, but it is often a poor default for short-lived agent sandboxes. Trace sandbox creation, tool execution, eval latency, and full trajectory time… Sara Verdi July 9, 2026 7 min read -
AgentsThe agent is the user now: lessons from the founder of WorkOS
WorkOS founder Michael Grinich explains why the next era of AI engineering depends on the systems around agents: identity, permissions, evals, memory, and feedback loops that keep autonomous… Aaron Winston July 8, 2026 9 min read -
AgentsOwn the loop: A field guide to agent harnesses
As models become cheaper and more interchangeable, the durable advantage shifts to the agent harness: the loop, tools, memory, permissions, and workflow you can own and refine. Aparna Dhinakaran July 6, 2026 8 min read -
AgentsHow to evaluate AI agents, avoid reward hacking, and build better specs
Agent evals are repeatable tests that score whether AI agents completed a task correctly. Learn how to design rubrics, test suites, and trace-based evals that catch failures and… Sara Verdi July 2, 2026 9 min read -
AgentsModel subsidies are ending. What do you do now?
Flat-rate AI plans are subsidizing agentic workloads. Learn why LLM inference costs are moving to metered pricing and how evals reveal cost per successful task. Laurie Voss July 1, 2026 8 min read
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