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An exe.dev blog post that breaks AI agents into three parts — the model, the agentic loop and the set of tools — and examines how choices about each shape an agent's capabilities, user experience and blast radius.
Essay arguing that software architecture is about making good decisions easier on a timeframe you can reason about — startups, banks, open source projects and large companies each face different time horizons and constraints, and many architecture disagreements are really disagreements about what timeframe is reasonable.
