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18 posts tagged agentic ai from Building Agentic AI. Practical writing on agentic AI.

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  1. Jul 19 2026

    Turn Up AI Autonomy Gradually, Like a Dial, Not an On/Off Switch

    Autonomy is not an on/off property of an agent. It is a per-task setting you turn up gradually as the agent earns trust. Here is the dial, and how to move it.

    · Enterprise · 17 min read

  2. Jul 14 2026

    The AI Agent Production Readiness Checklist

    Twelve checks that decide whether an agent ships. Any red holds the launch until it is green or covered by a control, except four hard blocks that cannot be covered.

    · Enterprise · 41 min read

  3. Jul 05 2026

    Forward Deployed Engineering: Why Agentic AI Doesn't Ship Itself

    Forward Deployed Engineering feels new because AI vendors finally named it. The mid-2026 wave of billion-dollar commitments is the market admitting agentic AI does not ship itself.

    · Enterprise · 13 min read

  4. Jul 05 2026

    LangGraph for Voice AI Agents: Strengths, Limits, and Production Risks

    LangGraph is the stateful control-flow brain for a voice agent, not the real-time media layer. Where it fits, where it breaks, and how to compose it for production voice.

    · Enterprise · 15 min read

  5. Jun 23 2026

    AI Agent Observability Is Not Just Logs

    Logs tell you what the system did. Agent observability tells you why it decided wrong. Here is what to observe, what to evaluate, and what to instrument first.

    · Enterprise · 26 min read

  6. Jun 17 2026

    Why Most Agentic AI Demos Fail in Production

    A demo proves an agent can work once. Production asks whether it works repeatedly, safely, within budget, on messy inputs and broken tools, for real users. The four gates that decide whether a pilot ships, and why the demo-to-production gap is structural, not a bug to patch.

    · Enterprise · 10 min read

  7. Jun 11 2026

    Happy Agents, Better CX: The Signal Your Dashboard Skips

    A viral heart-rate experiment ranked the meetings that stressed an engineer most. It points at the CX metric almost no dashboard tracks: how the agent feels while serving the customer, and how to use that signal without crossing into surveillance.

    · Enterprise · 6 min read

  8. Jun 06 2026

    When to Use an Agent Framework vs Build It Yourself (LangGraph, CrewAI, and More)

    The honest answer is not "always" or "never." Build the raw loop yourself until you hit a specific named pain, then adopt a framework to solve that pain, not on principle. A decision diagram, a map of the frameworks worth knowing (LangGraph, CrewAI, AG2, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, Pydantic AI, plus the AWS, Microsoft, and Google platforms) and what each is good at, and the signals that tell you which side of the line you are on.

    · Beginner · 12 min read

  9. May 26 2026

    Giving Your Agent Memory: A Minimal Implementation

    "Memory" is one word for four different problems your agent has. The conversation buffer, summarization, episodic recall, semantic retrieval, and key-value preferences, each built from scratch in raw Python with no framework, plus the decision guide for which one you actually need.

    · Beginner · 12 min read

  10. May 26 2026

    Tool Calling From First Principles (Before You Touch LangChain)

    Function calling, demystified. The under-the-hood mental model of how a model "calls a tool," a 40-line runnable example with no framework, the four things that go wrong in production, and when reaching for a framework actually helps.

    · Beginner · 10 min read

  11. May 26 2026

    What Counts as Agentic AI, and What Does Not

    Chatbots, workflows, and agentic AI are not the same thing. A working definition, the AGENT framework, the autonomy ladder, production gotchas, and a 10-question checklist you can run on Monday.

    · Enterprise · 24 min read

  12. May 24 2026

    The Agent Loop, Explained: Perceive, Decide, Act, Observe

    The four-move loop that turns a language model into an agent. A diagram, a worked example, and the failure modes that come from breaking each step.

    · Beginner · 7 min read

  13. May 24 2026

    Agentic AI Interview Questions: 30 Real Questions with Production Answers (2026)

    Thirty interview questions you actually get when applying for a senior agentic AI engineering role in 2026. Production answers from someone who has shipped these systems, not vendor talking points.

    · Enterprise · 18 min read

  14. May 24 2026

    Build an AI Agent From Scratch in Python, No Framework

    A tutorial that builds a real AI agent in about 150 lines of Python, with no LangChain, no LangGraph, no CrewAI. Just the agent loop, two tools, memory, and bounded autonomy.

    · Beginner · 12 min read

  15. May 24 2026

    ReAct vs Plan-and-Execute: Which Agent Pattern, and How to Explain It in an Interview

    The two patterns most agentic interviews ask about. What each one actually does, when each one is right, and the hybrid most production systems end up using.

    · Enterprise · 7 min read

  16. May 23 2026

    What is agentic AI?

    A short, honest definition of agentic AI and how it actually differs from a chatbot or a generative AI app.

    · Beginner · 2 min read

  17. May 20 2026

    Agentic AI Glossary: 40 Terms, Plainly Defined

    Forty core agentic AI terms in plain language, grouped from foundations to production: the agent loop, tool calling, memory, design patterns, guardrails, MCP, and more. A reference you can scan or cite.

    · Beginner · 10 min read

  18. May 11 2026

    Agentic Coding Is Real. Here is the Mental Model Every Leader, Engineer, and Recruiter Needs in 2026

    A vendor-neutral mental model of agentic coding in 2026: what changed, the working definition of an agent, AGENTS.md, modes of autonomy, the MCP stack, and principles that have held up across two years.

    · Beginner · 17 min read