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Half the Demos Are Fake Now
Faking an AI demo now costs less than building the thing, so the only proof that counts is a run someone else can replay.
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The Handoff Is Where Agents Break
You debug the agent that produced the bad output. The bug was in the message it got handed.
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Give Your Agent an Undo Button
You can bound what an agent touches and measure when it fails. Neither one saves you if the mistake it makes cannot be taken back.
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The Entry-Level Job Is the Canary
The most-cited number about AI and jobs is real, and almost everyone repeats it wrong. Here is what the Stanford paper actually found, what its authors refuse to claim, and the one fact in it worth building a hiring plan on.
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