The Human in the Loop

What happens when a platform engineer hands the pager to agents — experiments, war stories, and the occasional human override.

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The Hundred-Year Conversation: A Century of Speaking Machine — Until Machines Spoke Human

For a hundred years, using a computer meant learning its language — levers, punch cards, cursors, menus, apps. Then, in 2022, the direction of that conversation reversed. This is the story of how we…

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Autoresearch: How Deep-Research AI Agents Are Actually Built

Everyone is shipping "deep research" agents, but the architectures underneath are surprisingly different. This post maps the autoresearch pattern, the state of the art, the benchmarks, the critiques…

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Evolution of Prompt Engineering to Context Engineering

Interacting with large language models used to be a craft of wording. Now, with million-token windows and AI assistants living inside Outlook, Teams and VS Code, the game has quietly moved from…