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What we learn building agents that run in production.
You Don't Always Need an LLM: When to Use a Small Language Model
Deciding when to use a small language model instead of a frontier one? Score the task on latency, cost, control, and deployability, then decide.
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Your Approval Prompt Is the Weakest Sensor in Your Harness When to use AI workflows vs agents, and what happens when the user goes off script The Season 1 scorecard for an agritech AI pilot, defined written with You Can't Automate a Process You've Never Run LLM model migration in production: why your harness is the unit of analysis, not your prompts Why Agritech AI Pilots Fail at the Field Gate written with AI Agent Evaluation In Production: The Part Nobody's Built For Which Tasks to Automate With AI: Six Dimensions That Tell You Before You Build Harness engineering for AI agents: the design framework your deployment is missing Agricultural Machinery Digitalization and AI: The Seven Software Layers the Industry Never Built written with What Is an AI Harness - and Why You've Been Using One Without Knowing It written with