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Graph Engineering Is Not a New Discipline. That Is the Point.

Jul 20, 2026·12 min·AI

A new label is going around for building agentic systems as explicit execution graphs. The label is barely real. The shift underneath it is, and the evidence for and against it is more interesting than either side admits.

Agentic RAG

May 13, 2026·8 min·AI

Semantic RAG is a fixed pipeline. Agentic RAG hands retrieval control to the model: when to retrieve, what to query, how to combine, when to stop. A short guide to the patterns that matter and how to ship them.

Persistence and Checkpointing: Time Travel and Recovery for LLM Agents

Apr 24, 2026·8 min·AI

A long-running agent that loses its state on the next deploy is not a production system. Checkpointing saves agent state after every step, enabling conversational memory, human-in-the-loop pauses, time travel for debugging, and fault-tolerant resumption.

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