When Engineers meet AI
Kannan KalidasanAn engineer writing about Open Source AI, Software Agents, Physical AI and AI Engineering for builders who lead and leaders who build.
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AG-UI : Agent-User Interaction Protocol
The agent ecosystem is slowly developing protocols for most of the important boundaries around an agent.
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MCP gives agents a common interface for discovering and invoking tools.
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Agent-to-agent protocols are exploring how agents d...
Guardrails for Coding Agents Block Commands, Not Capabilities
As coding agents become more capable, we are starting to put more guardrails around them.
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Don’t force push.
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Don’t read
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Don’t delete repositories.
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Don’t call production systems.
These sound like straightforwar...
This Week in AI & Tech #WK37
This week’s signal is less about another model release and more about the infrastructure around agents becoming real software infrastructure: runtimes, sandboxes, scheduling, routing, observability, governance, and cost controls.
coherent...
This Week in AI & Tech #WK36
This week’s pattern
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Coding agents are becoming systems problems, not just model problems. Routing, critique, context preservation, permissions and cost are now part of the runtime design.
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AI infrastructure is moving deeper into...
The Hidden Cost of Resuming the Same Claude Code Session
Quick Finding
While debugging a cost discrepancy in agent-top, a tool I built recently,
Github link: https://github.com/kannandreams/agent-top
I noticed the same Claude Code session was showing two different estimates:
agent-top →...
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