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AI AgentsEngineering
Why your AI agent needs a memory
Stateless agents re-derive the same context every turn. Here is what to persist.
Parallel AI·
EngineeringEvals
Evals are just tests you were going to write anyway
Treat prompt regressions the way you treat any other regression.
Parallel AI·
EngineeringAI Agents
Structured output beats parsing prose
Ask for JSON and validate it, rather than regexing a paragraph.
Parallel AI·
EngineeringPerformance
Rate limits are a design constraint, not an error case
Backoff belongs in the architecture, not in a try/except at the edge.
Parallel AI·
AI AgentsEngineeringEvals
A checklist for launching an agent to real users
Logging, fallbacks, spend caps, and a kill switch you have actually tested.
Parallel AI·
SEOEngineering
Writing docs an LLM can actually use
Headings, short paragraphs, and one idea per section.
Parallel AI·
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