Design
Why the Best AI Agents Know When to Do Nothing
Six practical patterns for building AI agents that stop wasting tokens. Confidence gates, cost checks, explicit no-ops, cooldowns, and exit conditions that actually work.
Wu Wei and the AI Agent That Did Too Much
The hardest thing to build in agentic AI isn't capability. It's restraint. What Taoist non-action taught me about designing agents that know when to stop.