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            <title><![CDATA[Agent SDKs (guide)]]></title>
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            <description><![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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Significant revision: the four properties now flow as one scrolling read, with the same-mechanism illustration and the solid-to-shaky spectrum bars.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Find your benchmark (exercise)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[See how your kind of work gets tested, who leads today, and where to check a live ranking.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is it safe to paste? (exercise)]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ten quick calls on what's fine to drop into an AI tool.]]></description>
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            <description><![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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Harness (guide)]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Significant revision: instructions, tools, skills, and memory in one scrolling read, with the model-vs-harness illustration and the four-piece map.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trust but verify (exercise)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn which parts of an answer to check — and how.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Upgrade your prompt (exercise)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Add four layers — role, context, format, example — and watch the prompt get sharper.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What to hand to AI? (exercise)]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sort real tasks across hand off, collaborate, and keep.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Working With AI (guide)]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Significant revision: the four Ds now flow as one scrolling read, with the cycle illustration and the delegation modes up front.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Your AI Instructions (exercise)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nine questions that teach your tool who you are, how you work, and what good output looks like.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[My AI tools were not sharing custody]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The models work. The payoff doesn't. Yet.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Uber spent its whole 2026 AI budget by mid-April. The tools arrived. The instructions for using them didn't.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Every tool wants to be the place your work lives]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Four products, four different pricing models, one underlying bet.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nobody Can Prove ROI Yet]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The bottleneck now is adoption.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[2,621 commits later.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The skill is the structure, instructions and discipline you bring to the tool.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Human in the loop: More signals, same accountability]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[You can automate signals. You can't automate ownership.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Back to the Fire]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The most important enterprise AI product right now.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Not ChatGPT, not Copilot, not Agentforce, not Gemini. What's happening now is different. It's moving behind the scenes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Agents Never Showed Up]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[All year I kept hearing about agents. Autonomous this, ambient that. Systems that would just... run. I went looking. Never found one.]]></description>
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