Architecting Autonomy
Aaron Sempf, Erik Farr, Akhil BhaskarArchitecting Autonomy explores how modern systems remain stable as autonomy scales. Why structure—not scale—now defines intelligent organizations.
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Speech and Voice Agents
Every pattern so far has operated through text. This one speaks.
Speech and voice agents interact through spoken dialogue: speech recognition converts audio to text, LLM reasoning processes the intent, and speech synthesis returns a spoken...
Coding Agents
Coding agents are not autocomplete. They interpret goals, gather context from the development environment, reason about what needs to change, and then act — generating code, refactoring, debugging, writing tests, triggering builds.
The pat...
Computer Use Agents
The previous agents call functions and servers. This one operates the computer.
Computer use agents interact with digital environments the way a human would: browsers, terminals, file systems, applications. They combine LLM reasoning with...
Tool Server Agents
Episode 4 covered agents that call functions. This episode covers what happens when the tools themselves are complex systems.
Tool server agents decouple decision logic from execution. The primary agent remains lightweight; it reasons and...
Tool-Based Agents
The previous patterns reason. This one acts.
Tool-based agents extend reasoning with the ability to invoke external functions, APIs, and services. The LLM decides which tool to use, constructs the call arguments, executes the function, and...
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The defining challenge of intelligent systems is no longer scale, but stability. As autonomy increases, architecture becomes the primary control surface. | 20+ years distributed and embedded systems engineer, focused on complex and adaptive systems.
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