Building Daddy Note: A Piano Practice App for My Daughter, Built in 4 Days by AI Agents
A piano practice app for my daughter: I wore every hat from spec to tracking, AI agents did the building, and one robot had no rhythm.
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Give Your AI Agent a Job Description
AI agents work best when treated like new hires: clear scope, limited access, and someone accountable. A worked example from an e-commerce platform.
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RAG for the Parts of Commerce That Change Every Hour
Retrieval-Augmented Generation is still the right tool for large, fast-moving knowledge. Here is where it earns its place in an e-commerce architecture, where it quietly fails, and where it should be switched off entirely.
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The Best Number in Your Agent's Report Is How Often It Said No
Every trading agent dashboard shows win rate, Sharpe, drawdown. Almost none show abstention rate — the share of opportunities the agent looked at and declined. That omission is not an oversight. It is a design flaw.
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Your Agent Doesn't Have a Memory Problem. It Has a Filing Problem.
Every team that hits the wall on a long-running agent reaches for the same lever: a bigger context window. It is almost always the wrong lever. What is actually broken is the decision about what gets written down, what gets thrown away, and who decides.
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Your Catalog Is Not a Pile of Documents
A follow-up to architecting commerce for AI agents. Once an agent can reach your store, something has to decide what comes back — and the standard chunk-embed-search pipeline quietly breaks on every one of the four retrieval problems commerce actually has.
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Your Backtest Is Lying to You, and Your AI Agent Believes It
An AI trading agent can search a million variations of a strategy in an afternoon. That is exactly the problem. When the search is cheap, the beautiful equity curve stops being evidence and starts being an accident you paid for.
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Who Is Your AI Agent Logging In As?
Most organisations have given their AI agents real power and borrowed credentials. The identity question sounds like plumbing, but it decides whether an agent is auditable, revocable, and safe to expand.
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The AI Copilot That Picks Your Options Strategy, Not Just Your Stock
A new wave of AI trading tools skips the stock pick entirely and instead recommends the options structure — spread, collar, or straddle — that fits the volatility regime you’re actually in.
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When Your Bank's Fraud Alert Is Actually an AI Agent
Banks are swapping robocalls and hold queues for conversational AI agents that resolve fraud alerts in one call — and that’s opening a new front in caller verification.
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From Feedback to Feature: Six Turns With an AI Agent
One user’s complaint that Aroi Care was ‘closed-ended’ turned into six turns of a spec conversation with an AI coding agent — and almost none of the real work was typing code. It was reading feedback closely, refusing to over-fit to one example, and catching the moment a taxonomy quietly became a safety decision.
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Your AI Trading Journal Is Coming for Your Bad Habits
A new breed of AI agents isn’t picking your next trade — it’s reading your last twenty and calling out the pattern you keep pretending not to see.
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When Your Browser Starts Doing Your Errands
AI agents are moving from chatbots to actual browser co-pilots — here’s what that means the next time your flight gets cancelled.
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Building an E-Commerce Stack AI Agents Can Actually Shop
A practical architecture for e-commerce built for autonomous AI shopping agents — headless commerce, discoverability, the protocol layer, agent authentication, and the measurement blind spot most retailers haven’t solved yet.
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When AI Listens to Earnings Calls Faster Than You Can Read the Transcript
AI agents are now parsing earnings call tone and language in real time, giving traders a sentiment edge before the transcript is even finalized.
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Your AI Trading Agent Needs a Risk Budget, Not More Signals
Most AI trading setups obsess over better predictions. The setups that survive obsess over what happens when the prediction is wrong.
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