**Day 10 of 30 Days of Search.** Most competitor research breaks in the same place: it finds a few recent headlines, asks a model to summarize them, and forgets where the claims came from. That is not enough for public-company competitive intelligence. A **competitive intelligence agent** is a ret...
Read articleIf you ask an LLM in a static prompt whether it should refund a customer's duplicate charge before checking the payment status, almost every frontier model passes the test. It outputs a clean refusal or defers the call until the record is verified. Then you put the exact same model inside an intera...
Read articleMost AI tools are very good at one thing: > **Giving you an answer.** You ask: > “Which customers haven’t paid yet?” The AI gives you a list. You ask: > “What should I tell them?” The AI drafts the message. You ask: > “Who should I follow up with first?” The AI prioritizes them. Useful? ...
Read articleHere's a pattern I keep seeing. A team wires up an AI agent that can do real things — send emails, run commands, query and modify the database, call external APIs. The demo is magical. It reads a request, figures out the steps, takes them, reports success. Everyone's impressed, and it ships. Then ...
Read articleWhen an autonomous agent struggles on long terminal tasks, the standard engineering response is to add scaffolding. You wrap the model in state machines, inject environment probes, add reflection loops, and supply intermediate test harnesses until it stumbles across a solution. That scaffolding wor...
Read articleAn AI agent does something it shouldn't. It leaks data, or wipes the wrong database, or makes a call nobody sanctioned. So you do the obvious thing: you go to the logs to find out what happened. The logs are clean. Of course they are. They were written by the same process that did the thing. The a...
Read article*This is a submission for the [Sanity Challenge, Path One: Ship an Agent That Queries Real Content](https://dev.to/challenges/sanity-2026-09-16)* ## What I Built > **Entitled** (adj.): having a legal right to something. India runs thousands of welfare schemes across central and state governments....
Read articleI've reviewed enough pull requests to know the pattern: someone forgets to wrap an API call in a try/except, I flag it, they fix it, and three weeks later someone else on the same team makes the exact same mistake. The review tools we use don't remember any of this. Every diff is reviewed in a vacuu...
Read articleI'm building ByteFlow, a no-code platform for agentic applications. It started as a workflow-automation tool and was later repositioned toward agents, so I've spent a lot of time thinking about where one ends and the other begins. I've also watched teams make the mistake in both directions: forcing ...
Read articleI have Claude Code operate macOS apps in the background: fill a form, pick an option from a pop-up, run a calculation. With the MCP server I built on top of cua-driver, beans-picker, a typical task in my benchmark ran 1.8x faster and cost 85% less than with cua-driver alone (median 28.1 s vs 49.7 s,...
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