You shipped an agent that handles customer support tickets. In staging it routed cleanly, called the right tools, and stayed on script. A few weeks into production, things drift. The agent forgets constraints you set in the system prompt halfway throu...

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$770,000 a Day: When the World's Busiest Strait Goes Silent

On March 1st, a bulk carrier called the Run Chen 2 went dark. Her AIS transponder stopped broadcasting at 9:30 PM local time, just as she approached the western mouth of the Strait of Hormuz. She reappeared about seven hours later in the Gulf of Oman. Whatever happened in between, she didn't want anyone to see. She wasn't the only one. Between 40 and 50 ships went offline in the same region that night. Some were at anchor, hedging their bets. Others made the same midnight run. By the following m

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Advanced Web Scraping with Power Query: Automating Data Extraction for SEO and Analytics

As digital environments grow more complex, manual data aggregation becomes a massive operational bottleneck. For enterprise MarTech architects and analytics engineers, building robust, automated pipelines to extract web data is critical for accurate SEO auditing, competitive analysis, and real-time dashboarding. While many default to Python-based tools like Beautiful Soup or Scrapy for data mining, Power Query (embedded natively within Microsoft Excel and Power BI) offers an incredibly efficient

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I stopped uploading my files to random websites and built my own tools instead

Every week I'd find myself doing the same thing. Googling "compress PDF Every week I'd find myself doing the same thing. Googling "compress PDF online free", clicking the first result, uploading my file to some website I'd never heard of, and hoping for the best. One day I actually read the privacy policy of one of these tools. "Files retained for 24 hours. Processed on our servers. May be used to improve our services." That was enough for me. WebAssembly changed everything. It lets you run near

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Context window == RAM?

That's how you get an agent who talks to you in real time. I figured I'd go ahead and spill the beans on it. Seems someone has created a chat bot that's doing this, so she's got the idea. So IMO everyone should get it. The rabbit hole goes pretty deep though if ya think about it. Anyway, on my first Mnemara post I kinda left it open without spelling it out. Here's a better picture. My agents never make a tool call for memories. They think it, something else injects it. I send mid turn inputs, I

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