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The Hardest Part of Agentic AI Isn't Intelligence. It's Plumbing.

Drew Donaldson

Published on: 04/07/2026

The hardest part of agentic AI isn't intelligence, it's integration. Why 26% of agent projects die on legacy plumbing, plus auth, state, and the MCP standard.

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The Model Race in Mid-2026: What Actually Changed and What's Just Benchmarks

Automata Intel

Published on: 13/06/2026

The mid-2026 LLM race has converged on benchmarks. The shifts that actually change how you build are usable context, agentic ability, and collapsing inference cost.

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