## AI Agents Don't Need a Genius for Every Decision
AI agents burn a shocking amount of intelligence on tiny decisions.
Should I retry?
Which tool fits here?
Did this task actually finish?
Is this action risky?
Which five of these hundred documents actually matter?
Right now, most teams call the ...
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title: "PNG admits when it is damaged and JPEG does not"
published: true
description: "One bit flipped, six image formats, 400 trials each. Every corrupted PNG was refused by Pillow and libpng, yet Chromium painted half of each one correctly. JPEG rendered complete images in which 96% of pixels ...
# My Scheduled Agent Ran 40 Times and Did Nothing — Here's the Assertion That Fixed It
I found this one by accident, which is the only way you find it.
Every night at 02:30, a job pulls new filings from an API, normalizes them, and drops them in a queue that feeds my morning briefing. It had been...
## Introduction
You click on a button. Nothing happens.
You click again. Still nothing.
Then the menu opens... and closes right away.
We have all lived this. It's a responsiveness problem. And since March 12, 2024, Google measures it with a Core Web Vital: **INP**.
Very often, the problem is not ...
Anthropic published a post about their CI infrastructure that I keep coming back to.
The headline number is that Claude writes 80% of their code. That's the part everyone quoted. The part that stuck with me was further down: their test suite grew 10x, and CI jobs went up 25x over six months.
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