Aug 28, 2026

CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, Skills, Hooks and Subagents: A Field Guide to Steering AI Agents (Ep. 1022)

Episode 1022 dissects the crucial aspect of effectively steering AI agents by determining the optimal placement of instructions to ensure reliability and cost-efficiency. It explores seven distinct methods for instruction delivery, contrasting instructions as probabilities with hooks as guarantees, and highlights the industry-wide adoption of standards like `agents.md` and the importance of human-crafted guidance for superior agent performance.

Jun 25, 2026

The Miranda Hypothesis: How Hamilton Poisoned Persona Evals - Jacob E. Thomas, Results Gen

This talk exposes "Miranda distortion," a critical flaw in AI personas where models, influenced by modern cultural narratives, produce convincing but anachronistic outputs. Current evaluations fail to detect this, prioritizing fluency over fidelity. The speaker proposes "epistemic simulation"—a new paradigm grounded in corpus-bounded, temporally-anchored, and expert-evaluated reasoning—and introduces the "Prism Experiment." This rigorous, pre-registered protocol uses Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how a weighted rubric, created by historians and de-emphasizing rhetorical fluency, can detect anachronism. It advocates for the "humanist in the loop" as a technical requirement to ensure AI personas are true to their documentary records, not just convincing.

May 26, 2026

The Four Types of Memory Every AI Agent Needs

AI agents utilize four distinct types of memory, analogous to human cognition, to move beyond simple chatbot responses. This summary explores the CoALA framework, detailing working, semantic, procedural, and episodic memory and how they enable agents to learn, recall skills, and leverage past experiences.

May 10, 2026

Hierarchical Memory: Context Management in Agents — Sally-Ann Delucia

The Arize team shares lessons from building their AI agent, Alyx, which analyzes its own trace data. They detail their journey from failed attempts like naive truncation and summarization to a successful strategy combining head/tail preservation with a retrievable memory store and using sub-agents to manage context complexity.

Apr 25, 2026

Every API Is a Tool for Agents - Matt Carey, Cloudflare

This talk explores how to overcome the context window limitations that prevent AI agents from accessing large APIs. It introduces "Codemode," a technique where agents write code against a typed SDK in a secure, sandboxed environment, moving beyond static tool definitions and enabling full API accessibility.

Feb 06, 2026

We're All Addicted To Claude Code

Calvin French-Owen, co-founder of Segment and former OpenAI Codex team member, discusses the rise of powerful coding agents. He contrasts the architectures of Codex and Claude Code, explores the future of work where engineers become managers of AI, and shares tips for becoming a top 1% power user.