Tag: agents

All the articles with the tag "agents".

• Builder's Daily Is a Fleet, Not a Newsletter

  Updated: 6 Jun, 2026

  How Builder's Daily works: 14 bounded scanner agents, filesystem memory, explicit curation, composable publish skills, and a public machine-readable surface — not one digest in your inbox.

• The Cross-App Workflow Cost $5.44. Here's How We Got It to $0.17.

  31 May, 2026

  A hybrid agent running browser research + desktop spreadsheet creation cost $5.44 baseline. Optimizing each leg independently — Playwright for the browser, CLI-first prompt for the computer use desktop leg — brought it to $0.17. The browser leg did most of the damage.

• The Test Isn't Whether the Agent Picks the Right Tool. It's What Happens When the Tool Fails.

  30 May, 2026

  I built a hybrid agent expecting the routing to be the demo. The actual demo turned out to be what happened when a tool call failed and the outer model retried with a different approach — twice in two runs.

• I Had a Working Agent at $3.41 a Run. Here's Where the Money Was Actually Going.

  29 May, 2026

  Same task, different harness configurations. Caching the inner loop saved 29%. Convergence rules saved 54%. Eliminating the LLM from the browser loop entirely dropped cost from $3.41 to $0.03. The harness is where the margin lives — and the harness goes all the way down.

• API → Connector → Browser → Computer Use → Human: A Cost-Justified Hierarchy for Agent Tooling

  28 May, 2026

  Computer use is 45× more expensive than a structured API for the same task. Eight harness configurations across browser, desktop, and hybrid showed costs from $0.03 to $5.44 on the same task — the hierarchy, the numbers, and why implementation beats model choice.

• Composer 2.5 Earned a Daily-Driver Slot — After Two Days of Real Wiring Work

  20 May, 2026

  First impressions of Cursor Composer 2.5 in the agents UI: integration work across repos, 328 requests and ~202M tokens on the included pool, 95%+ cache hits — not a review, a usage report.

• The AI Chief of Staff Is a Fleet, Not an Agent

  14 May, 2026

  The AI Chief of Staff pattern is everywhere in May 2026 — and every implementation makes the same mistake. They build one agent that generates a morning brief. A real chief of staff is a fleet.

• The Enterprise MCP Pattern: Proxy, Aggregate, Host

  12 May, 2026

  There are 58 public MCP servers in the awslabs catalog covering cloud infrastructure, databases, AI/ML, and ops tooling. Here's the enterprise pattern: proxy them locally, then host the proxy behind a gateway so every developer in your org gets them without setup.