Illustration Part 3: Cost & Reliability
Tool-calling costs 2.3x more and fails 20% of the time. Here's the math.
February 1, 20264 min read
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Illustration Part 2: Token Economics
Tool-calling re-reads everything on every call. Here's exactly where the tokens go.
February 1, 20263 min read
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Illustration Part 1: The Attention Loss Problem
We gave a tool-calling agent detailed instructions. It ignored them. Here's why.
February 1, 20264 min read
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LLM Attention Is Precious: Why ReAct Wastes It
A visual comparison of token usage between ReAct (Reasoning+Acting) and PlanAndExecute approaches.
February 1, 20266 min read
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Behaviour Programming vs. Tool Calling: Two Paradigms for AI Agents
Why teaching agents through executable examples beats massive prompts with chain-of-thought reasoning, illustrated through a RAG agent implementation.
January 30, 202613 min read
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Closing the Flywheel in Practice
A hands-on walkthrough showing how primitives and decompositions create the compounding improvement loop that prompt engineering lacks.
January 28, 20266 min read
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The Missing Flywheel in Agent Building
Why language models keep getting better while AI agents remain stubbornly brittle, and how to fix it with structural separation of concerns.
January 28, 20268 min read
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Getting Started with OpenSymbolicAI
Build your first AI agent in 5 minutes using OpenSymbolicAI.
January 27, 20263 min read
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The OpenSymbolicAI Manifesto
How do we build non-deterministic intelligence on top of a deterministic foundation, without compromising either?
January 27, 20264 min read
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