Five product layers are crystallizing in open-source AI agent repos right now. Learn which ones matter and how to borrow the patterns before they harden into expensive platform defaults.

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Every AI agent in production hits the same wall: they start from zero every Monday with no memory of past decisions. Luis explores why memory and governance is the one unsolved layer of the agentic stack—and what governed memory actually requires.

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Prompt engineering is dead. The winning move is prompt systems—evolutionary optimization, self-refinement loops, harness engineering, and spec-driven contracts. Here's how to build them.

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When you're running multiple agents in production, you need more than a dashboard—you need a real operator console. Luis breaks down what that looks like and why it matters.

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Luis argues the comfortable narrative about PMs evolving into agent orchestrators is false. The real trend: agentic AI will automate the PM role itself, leaving only domain experts and compliance checkpoints.

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A new paper proves what product builders have suspected: your system prompt is the least valuable part of your AI harness. The real wins come from tool architecture, middleware, and memory structure.

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Google didn't release a smarter model at I/O 2026—it turned 12+ products into agent runtimes. The real story is distribution dominance, not AI capability.

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The cheapest agent improvement happens before you build it. Write your eval first—it's the product spec that prevents plausible-but-untrustworthy outputs.

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Your board is split on AI strategy. Luis breaks down the five investment motions—build, buy, borrow, hire, wait—and gives you the framework to pick the right one for each workflow.

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Three startups shipped on schedule and hit milestones—then quietly vanished. The real moat isn't code; it's the relationship you build with customers.

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