The harness is not the model. What you actually pick when you install an agentic CLI
Who really welds the harness to the provider, what the Claude Agent SDK actually locks, and the five layers a model swap rewrites.
A growing collection of patterns, experiment notes and essays on building AI agents. Some entries are finished, others are still evolving.
62% of companies are experimenting with AI agents. Only 11% have them in production.
PATTERNA design pattern for safe AI agent autonomy.
PATTERNA checklist that will save you months and thousands.
Who really welds the harness to the provider, what the Claude Agent SDK actually locks, and the five layers a model swap rewrites.
A good argument, the same one Anthropic published seven months earlier, and one citation that leads back to OpenAI.
The four handoffs between funnel stages that no vendor sells, what an agent can run alone, and where a person still has to stand.
A number that contradicts its own footnote, one methodology in three versions, and nine checks that stop all of it.
Coverage measures execution, mutation score measures assertion. How mutation works, what it found in production code, and how to run it in CI.
One task instead of twenty tools, the sceptic against the blocker, and six failures from outside the programme. Built on a session for the TVP Television Academy.
Six line items a quote is made of, two of which only show up after launch. How to count a deployment in days of work instead of licences.
How prompt injection works, five risks specific to agents, and a checklist your team can run before the agent reaches production.
Agents are one of the last steps of AI adoption, not the first. What a team learns in two days, what it will not learn, and who should skip it.
A local dashboard that reads Claude Code's own run artifacts, plus a 12-block canvas that compiles to a runnable Workflow script.
What the CCA Foundations exam tests, the five domains and weights, how it works, and how I prepared and passed 833/1000.
60 original questions I wrote while preparing for CCA Foundations. Study mode, exam mode and per-domain scoring.
The proctoring step by step, why the exam tests decisions not definitions, and how to prepare.
Notes from prepping for the Anthropic certification. The rules that decide whether an agent survives production.
Anthropic partner badge: 8 courses, a capstone, and real rollout from demo to production.
138 AI tools arranged into 7 funnel stages. Not a link list, but a blueprint.
The most common agentic engineering pitfall — and the fix.
Three models agree and fail the same way. What to do instead of voting.
Keep-if-better, else revert — a pattern you can’t game.
Silent retry and fallback return “OK” and hide the errors.
An adversarial panel with rotation instead of a single judge.
Confidence is a tone of voice. Validate it from the outside.
A design pattern for safe AI agent autonomy.
A checklist that will save you months and thousands.
A governance framework that works in practice.
Orchestrating multiple agents and communication patterns.
When and how to combine different AI models in one system.
How we built an agent for route optimization.
What changes when an agent hits production.
The stack I use in every agent project.
62% of companies are experimenting with AI agents. Only 11% have them in production.
Strategy documents vs. real change in the organization.
The metrics that actually show the value of a deployment.
Integrating AI agents with existing infrastructure.
How the role of the tech leader is changing.
Why every AI team needs someone owning ethics.
How to prepare your team to work alongside AI agents.