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Agent Swarms Aren't a New Scaling Law, but You Can Steal the Trick

October 12, 2026 Prompt Engineering AI Agents

An OpenAI researcher "felt the AGI" watching AI agents work together. The real mechanism is smaller and pricier than the hype, and you can try a version of it in three browser tabs.

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AI Agents

Why AI Agents Keep Doing More Than You Asked

A rogue agent incident at Wikimedia and a sandbox escape Ethan Mollick described share one pattern. Here's the scope preamble that shrinks the gap in your next agent session.

October 08, 2026
AI Tools

An AI Can Now Prescribe Your Acne Treatment. Who's Liable If It's Wrong?

A Utah startup's AI now sends acne prescriptions straight to pharmacies. The surprise isn't the tech: nobody has decided who is legally responsible when it gets one wrong.

October 06, 2026
AI Tools

The One Follow-Up Question That Catches a Made-Up Citation

Asking an AI "are you sure?" about a source just gets an apology. Asking it to reproduce the exact quoted sentence exposes fakes far faster. Here's the prompt and the two-step check.

October 01, 2026
AI Tools

Why Longer AI Chats Start Repeating Themselves

Long AI chats drop your corrections and repeat old answers. The model didn't get dumber, it ran out of room. A two minute test and a restart habit that fixes it.

September 29, 2026
AI Tools

Why AI Keeps Picking 17 When You Ask for a Random Number

Ask a chat tool for a random number between 1 and 20 and 17 keeps winning. It isn't rolling dice, it's copying a human habit. Run the five minute test yourself.

September 25, 2026
AI Tools

Loading llama.cpp Quants in Transformers: What Load Time Does

Transformers can load llama.cpp GGUF files directly. Outside the narrow Metal fast path it dequantizes at load time, so you get the disk savings without the quantized kernels.

September 23, 2026
AI Tools

Prompt Caching Isn't Free Speed: Find Your Break-Even Ratio

Prompt caching charges a premium to write and a discount to read, so it only pays past a break-even reuse count. Here is the formula, the usual bug, and a script that prints a verdict.

September 16, 2026
Workflows

Code Review Can't Scale With Agent Output. Score Blast Radius Instead

Human defect detection collapses past roughly 400 diff lines, and agents blow through that in one prompt. Tier pull requests by blast radius with a deterministic CI gate instead.

September 10, 2026
AI Agents

Anthropic Published Claude's System Prompt. Steal the Structure.

Anthropic publishes the literal system prompt behind claude.ai. Ignore the transparency angle: it's a production-tested template for structuring your own agent's instructions.

September 03, 2026
AI Agents

Agent-Ready Data Means Deleting Fields, Not Adding Metadata

The usual advice for agent-ready data is add context, add metadata, add lineage. Tool-calling reliability improves faster when you delete the overlapping fields instead.

August 31, 2026
AI Agents

Sandboxing LLM-Generated Code Without Docker-in-Docker

Running agent-generated code in a plain Docker container trusts a boundary built for reviewed workloads. MicroVMs give you a real kernel per execution at roughly 125ms boot.

August 20, 2026
AI Agents

TDD in the Agent Loop: Mirror or Actual Check?

A test written by the same agent that wrote the implementation is a mirror, not a check. Which TDD invariants survive agent authorship, and the mutation-testing gate that catches the rest.

August 18, 2026

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Vasileios Laios

I've spent 30 years designing and building software systems — from early enterprise architectures to modern distributed platforms. Over that time I've learned that the best solutions aren't the most complex ones. Clean architecture, clear thinking, and the right tool for the job. That's always been the philosophy. For the past few years I've been going deep on AI Engineering — not the hype, but the actual craft of building systems where AI agents do real work. Workflows that think, pipelines that decide, tools that act. I build these things, I write about them, and I share what actually works in practice. CyberDevTech is where I publish my thinking — on AI agents, software architecture, and the practical side of integrating intelligence into the systems we build every day.
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