Building an AI agent is the easy part now. Trusting it with your company’s data, credentials, and credit card? That’s where things get interesting. That’s exactly the problem Google Cloud is tackling this month with Advent of Agents Season 3, a free, 31-day tutorial series running through October 2026. Here’s what it is, why it […]
Read More →Your agentic app just ran a search. The tool returned 500 results as JSON. Your agent appended all of it and fired off an API call — 45,000 tokens to answer a question that needed maybe 4,500. Tejas Manohar, a senior engineer at Netflix, hit this problem every day. He was running out of tokens […]
Read More →Large Language Models (LLMs) all predict text, but they differ a lot in how they follow instructions, use context, handle tools, and optimize for safety, speed, or cost. If you treat them as interchangeable, you’ll ship brittle prompts. If you treat them as different runtimes with different affordances, you’ll get reliable results. This post explains the major differences across […]
Read More →Listen up, engineers. We are past the “wow” phase. You know what an LLM is. You’ve likely integrated an API, generated some boilerplate code, and maybe even built a RAG pipeline. But here is the hard truth: if you are pasting the exact same prompt into GPT, Claude Sonnet, and Llama using the same strategy, […]
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