AI·Agents·AI Harness
Stop Letting Your Agent Thrash
A trivial question took our agent two and a half minutes. The model was fine, the harness let it thrash. Bounded loops beat a bigger model every time.
Craig Tracey ·
The revenue risk your CRM can't see.
Practical field notes on finding the evidence your CRM, health score, and forecast leave out.
AI·Context·Operations
You Don't Need a Data Team to Get AI Working
Most AI readiness advice says build a data team and document everything first. For a mid-sized company that is months of work before a single outcome.
Craig Tracey ·
Context·Agents·AI
Context Engineering vs Context Management: What's the Difference?
Context engineering operates at the prompt layer. Context management is the infrastructure underneath. Mixing them up is why agent pilots fail.
Craig Tracey ·
Agents·Context·AI
Levie Nailed the Job Description. He Left Out the Hard Part.
Aaron Levie nailed the job description. But the person he wants to hire will spend most of their time doing plumbing nobody planned for.
Craig Tracey ·
AI·Context
Your RAG Passed Every Test and Failed Every User
Eval overfitting is real and underdiagnosed. Most RAG systems have no model of the organization. They have documents about it.
Craig Tracey ·
AI·Agents·Platform Engineering
Building AI Agents: The Fundamentals
Twelve rules for building AI agents that actually work. What agents are, how the agentic loop works, and the mental models that matter.
Craig Tracey ·
AI
Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Evolving
AI is taking over tactical work, but strategic roles are becoming more valuable than ever. Here's why being the chef matters more than being the line cook.
Craig Tracey ·
AI
From Dashboards to Conversations: Conway's Law in the AI Era
Traditional UIs mirror organizational silos. Conway's Law stands between you and your outcomes.
Craig Tracey ·
AI
Why LeetCode Was Always a Dumb Idea - And AI Is Finally Killing It
LeetCode never tested real engineering skills, and AI has finally exposed its fundamental flaws as a hiring filter
Craig Tracey ·
AI·MCP·Platform Engineering
Introducing SixDegree: Live Operational State for the Agentic Enterprise
Introducing SixDegree: live operational state for the agentic enterprise, auto-derived from your systems of record and served to AI agents via MCP.
Craig Tracey ·