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2026
5 pieces-
Memory engines for long-running agents
Every agent-memory tutorial opens with a vector DB. That is a product opinion, not a default. Here is what mature agent runtimes actually use, and the narrow window where Qdrant or sqlite-vec earns its keep.
Apr 8- agents
- memory
- infrastructure
- vector-databases
- sqlite
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Read this before you take Google's $200K
The Google for Startups Cloud Program is real money. It is also four specific traps that have bankrupted founders. Here is the math nobody puts in the marketing copy.
Apr 5- gcp
- startup-credits
- cloud-economics
- vertex-ai
- firebase
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The voice-agent stack just collapsed
Three production speech-to-speech APIs shipped in a single quarter. The cascaded STT→LLM→TTS pipeline is now a legacy architecture.
Mar 25- voice
- models
- openai
- xai
- mistral
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The MCP ecosystem map
Twelve months in, MCP is 97M SDK downloads, 20,000+ servers, six framework attempts, and one unsolved auth problem. Here is who is actually shipping and where the protocol breaks at scale.
Mar 19- mcp
- anthropic
- agents
- infrastructure
- protocols
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The deep-research agent wars
Fifteen open-source deep-research agents reduce to four architecture archetypes. Two of the four are dead ends. Here is the field guide for picking.
Mar 12- agents
- deep-research
- langgraph
- open-source
- infrastructure