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Why Focused Landing Pages Convert Better
Most landing pages lose conversions by adding more. Nine cognitive principles and Princeton's processing fluency research explain what to remove instead.
Context Substrates for Long-Running Agents
Production agents often work better with reliable context retrieval across sessions than with persistent memory. Here is the two-camp taxonomy that separates the two markets, with the public signals most buyers are missing.
Hermes Agent in Production: the Day-30 Problem
Most Hermes Agent 4-profile teams work on day one and show signs of voice convergence by day 30 in production deployments. The operator layer that prevents it: handoff contracts, memory-KPI audits, and policy gates per role.
Why Most AI Agent Setups Run Far Slower Than They Could
The architecture around the model explains the gap between modest and substantial AI productivity outcomes. Five builders published the same thesis in one week.
The AI Knowledge Layer: 127 Pages, Zero Vector Databases, and What I Got Wrong
Karpathy's LLM wiki gist hit 99,000 bookmarks in a week. It resonated because it named what every AI user feels: your agents have no memory. I run a knowledge layer in production. Here is what works, what does not, and how to build one in 20 minutes.
Every SaaS Becomes an Agent Harness
A sales team replaced an entire sales SaaS with one Claude skill and three MCP servers. This pattern will define which software categories survive 2026.
From Rules to Results: What 22K Stars on a Single CLAUDE.md Reveal About AI-Assisted Development
The karpathy-skills repo proves that AI coding bottlenecks aren't about model capability. They're about the behavioral contract between human and LLM.
Why AI-Generated Software Still Needs Engineering Review
Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" in February 2025. Since then, a wave of AI-generated apps has shipped that work in demos and break in production. The problem is using AI tools without engineering discipline.
Anti-Slop Content Strategy: Why LLMs Won't Cite What They Can Already Generate
If ChatGPT can write your article from the title alone, it won't cite it either. Here's the content framework that optimizes for LLM citations instead of backlinks.