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        <name>Dan Quintero</name>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Agent SDKs (guide)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=runtime</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=runtime"/>
        <updated>2026-07-07T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The runtime guide is now Agent SDKs: same walk-through, plus the SDK landscape, a connect-your-tools section, and a working agent you can copy in Python or TypeScript.]]></summary>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Capabilities & Limits (guide)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=capabilities</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=capabilities"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Significant revision: the four properties now flow as one scrolling read, with the same-mechanism illustration and the solid-to-shaky spectrum bars.]]></summary>
        <category label="Guide" term="Guide"/>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Find your benchmark (exercise)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/exercises/benchmarks</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/exercises/benchmarks"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[See how your kind of work gets tested, who leads today, and where to check a live ranking.]]></summary>
        <category label="Exercise" term="Exercise"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Is it safe to paste? (exercise)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/exercises/safe-to-paste</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/exercises/safe-to-paste"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ten quick calls on what's fine to drop into an AI tool.]]></summary>
        <category label="Exercise" term="Exercise"/>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Basics (guide)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=basics</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=basics"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Significant revision: The Basics now reads as one scrolling page with the illustrated concept card, the chat-vs-agent comparison, and a clearer path to the next guide.]]></summary>
        <category label="Guide" term="Guide"/>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Harness (guide)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=harness</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=harness"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Significant revision: instructions, tools, skills, and memory in one scrolling read, with the model-vs-harness illustration and the four-piece map.]]></summary>
        <category label="Guide" term="Guide"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Trust but verify (exercise)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/exercises/verify</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/exercises/verify"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Learn which parts of an answer to check — and how.]]></summary>
        <category label="Exercise" term="Exercise"/>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Upgrade your prompt (exercise)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/exercises/prompts</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/exercises/prompts"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Add four layers — role, context, format, example — and watch the prompt get sharper.]]></summary>
        <category label="Exercise" term="Exercise"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[What to hand to AI? (exercise)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/exercises/delegation</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/exercises/delegation"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sort real tasks across hand off, collaborate, and keep.]]></summary>
        <category label="Exercise" term="Exercise"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Working With AI (guide)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=working-with-ai</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/guides?lab=working-with-ai"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Significant revision: the four Ds now flow as one scrolling read, with the cycle illustration and the delegation modes up front.]]></summary>
        <category label="Guide" term="Guide"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Your AI Instructions (exercise)]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/exercises/ai-setup?mode=type</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/exercises/ai-setup?mode=type"/>
        <updated>2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Nine questions that teach your tool who you are, how you work, and what good output looks like.]]></summary>
        <category label="Exercise" term="Exercise"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[My AI tools were not sharing custody]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/ideas/my-own-persistent-memory</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/ideas/my-own-persistent-memory"/>
        <updated>2026-06-20T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I built my own AI memory as a local graph so it would follow me between tools. Then someone asked whether I'd ever tested it, or just assumed it worked. I hadn't.]]></summary>
        <category label="Ideas" term="Ideas"/>
        <category label="Takes" term="Takes"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The models work. The payoff doesn't. Yet.]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/ideas/models-work-payoff-doesnt</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/ideas/models-work-payoff-doesnt"/>
        <updated>2026-05-28T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Uber spent its whole 2026 AI budget by mid-April. The tools arrived. The instructions for using them didn't.]]></summary>
        <category label="Ideas" term="Ideas"/>
        <category label="Takes" term="Takes"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Every tool wants to be the place your work lives]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/ideas/every-tool-wants-to-be-the-place</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/ideas/every-tool-wants-to-be-the-place"/>
        <updated>2026-04-20T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Four products, four different pricing models, one underlying bet.]]></summary>
        <category label="Ideas" term="Ideas"/>
        <category label="Takes" term="Takes"/>
        <category label="Agents" term="Agents"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Nobody Can Prove ROI Yet]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/ideas/nobody-can-prove-roi-yet</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/ideas/nobody-can-prove-roi-yet"/>
        <updated>2026-04-05T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The bottleneck now is adoption.]]></summary>
        <category label="Ideas" term="Ideas"/>
        <category label="Takes" term="Takes"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[2,621 commits later.]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/ideas/2621-commits-later</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/ideas/2621-commits-later"/>
        <updated>2026-03-01T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The skill is the structure, instructions and discipline you bring to the tool.]]></summary>
        <category label="Ideas" term="Ideas"/>
        <category label="Takes" term="Takes"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Human in the loop: More signals, same accountability]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/ideas/human-in-the-loop</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/ideas/human-in-the-loop"/>
        <updated>2026-01-21T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[You can automate signals. You can't automate ownership.]]></summary>
        <category label="Ideas" term="Ideas"/>
        <category label="Takes" term="Takes"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Back to the Fire]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/ideas/back-to-the-fire</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/ideas/back-to-the-fire"/>
        <updated>2026-01-09T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Post-sales lives between customers and the people who build what they rely on. The best people in this role understand what happens before the plate hits the table.]]></summary>
        <category label="Ideas" term="Ideas"/>
        <category label="Takes" term="Takes"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The most important enterprise AI product right now.]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/ideas/claude-code-enterprise</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/ideas/claude-code-enterprise"/>
        <updated>2025-11-23T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Not ChatGPT, not Copilot, not Agentforce, not Gemini. What's happening now is different. It's moving behind the scenes.]]></summary>
        <category label="Ideas" term="Ideas"/>
        <category label="Agents" term="Agents"/>
        <category label="Takes" term="Takes"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Agents Never Showed Up]]></title>
        <id>https://danquintero.com/ideas/agents-never-showed-up</id>
        <link href="https://danquintero.com/ideas/agents-never-showed-up"/>
        <updated>2025-10-26T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[All year I kept hearing about agents. Autonomous this, ambient that. Systems that would just... run. I went looking. Never found one.]]></summary>
        <category label="Ideas" term="Ideas"/>
        <category label="Agents" term="Agents"/>
        <category label="Takes" term="Takes"/>
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