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Engineering principles for AI agents

One agent beats multi agent

Jun 16, 2026

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4 min read

One agent beats multi agent

Stanford gave a team of agents and one agent the same compute. One agent won. Here's when to split — and when not to.

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
Your RAG isn't hallucinating

Jun 9, 2026

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3 min read

Your RAG isn't hallucinating

It never saw the answer. The bug's in retrieval, not the prompt — here's the number that proves it.

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
AI Tools Gone Wrong

Jun 2, 2026

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5 min read

AI Tools Gone Wrong

a 7-element review before you ship

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
Calibrated Approval

May 26, 2026

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4 min read

Calibrated Approval

When Human-in-Loop Fails AI Systems

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
Scaffold parity

May 21, 2026

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4 min read

Scaffold parity

the 6-variable checklist your eval is missing

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
The AI stack is code now. Secure it like code.

Apr 21, 2026

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3 min read

The AI stack is code now. Secure it like code.

What two breaches revealed about trust boundaries most teams haven't mapped.

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
How Much of Your Codebase Knows It's Talking to Anthropic?

Apr 14, 2026

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7 min read

How Much of Your Codebase Knows It's Talking to Anthropic?

The answer tells you exactly how exposed you are when the next policy changes.

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
The Capability Is Here. The Security Isn't.

Apr 10, 2026

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6 min read

The Capability Is Here. The Security Isn't.

Plus, Meta just quietly became a closed-source AI company for the first time

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
Google Ships Free. Microsoft Defects. OpenAI Raises $122B.

Apr 3, 2026

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6 min read

Google Ships Free. Microsoft Defects. OpenAI Raises $122B.

Plus, Three moves in one week that reshape how you think about model strategy

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
When Your Agent Ignores You: The Architecture Problem Behind AI Production Failures

Mar 31, 2026

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6 min read

When Your Agent Ignores You: The Architecture Problem Behind AI Production Failures

How Missing Guardrails Turn LLMs Into Risky Agents

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
Google’s TurboQuant targets AI’s biggest memory bottleneck

Mar 27, 2026

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3 min read

Google’s TurboQuant targets AI’s biggest memory bottleneck

Plus, Anthropic Mythos leak, Claude agent upgrades & more

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula
How to Reduce AI Costs Using Model Routing ?

Mar 24, 2026

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4 min read

How to Reduce AI Costs Using Model Routing ?

Route tasks across models to reduce costs without sacrificing quality.

Teja Derangula
Teja Derangula

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