Context plumbing (Interconnected)

kept by eddie dec 01, 25

Matt Webb argues that effective AI agents require continuous, pre-planned movement of context from creation to use, akin to plumbing.

Context Engineering for AI Agents: Part 2
Manus and LangChain share production strategies for AI agents: compact context to prevent rot, isolate sub-agent contexts, keep tool sets small, and treat agents as tools rather than building complex scaffolding.
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Filesystems are having a moment
Filesystems are emerging as a key context layer for AI agents, offering portable, owned data and interoperability without coordination, though context files risk reducing agent task success if overburdened.
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Introduction | Headroom
Headroom claims 87% token reduction with 100% accuracy by compressing tool outputs, logs, and other LLM context before model inference.
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Is AI Doing Less & Less?
A six-month evolution from fully agentic AI to a hybrid architecture shows 65% of workflow nodes now run as deterministic code, improving reliability and cost efficiency.
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Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
Putting your site behind Cloudflare introduces a single point of failure and unnecessary risk for sites that don't need its DDoS or CDN benefits.
also on #software-architecture, Cloudflare