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Measure the Work, Not the Meter

Article · June 2026 · Token billing itemized the cost of AI work and measures none of its value: the answerable question is cost and cycle time per delivered change, against a baseline

Harness Engineering

Paper · June 2026 · How Claude Code and Codex became long-running agentic-engineering systems, and why the harness, not the model, became the locus of capability gains

When the Loop Never Stops

Paper · June 2026 · How long-running agents broke seat-based pricing and created the AI value problem, traced link by link through dated public proof points

Harness vs Framework

Article · June 2026 · Whether you assemble agent scaffolding yourself from a framework or inherit it pre-wired from a harness is the first architectural fork in any agent project

The Day Copilot Started Charging by the Token

Article · June 2026 · Anatomy of the April 2026 pricing-model break, when multi-hour autonomous agentic sessions ended flat per-seat billing

More Turns, Bigger Bill

Article · June 2026 · Why agentic architecture is a token multiplier independent of price, and why routing to a cheaper model alone cannot settle the budget

FinOps for Agents

Article · June 2026 · A practitioner playbook for the four cost-control levers a platform team can deploy this quarter: spend caps, prompt caching, LLM gateways, and tiered routing

Always-On Enterprise Agents

Paper · April 2026 · Research taxonomy of persistent agent patterns covering session-anchored architecture, identity-bound governance, and the cycle-time productivity hypothesis

The Security Debt of Always-On Agents

Article · April 2026 · Why the enterprise security stack collapses when AI agents interact with data directly, and what a data-first defensive architecture looks like in practice

From Copilot to Principal

Article · April 2026 · Why persistent always-on agents do not shrink the human role, they invert it, and why most organizations are not structurally ready for the principal role this creates

The Specification Layer

Article · February 2026 · Why enterprises need explicit, machine-readable specifications to scale agentic development across teams

The Autonomous Agents Loop

Article · February 2026 · Why AI agents produce better output when they run autonomously against clear specifications

Autonomous AI Agents

Paper · February 2026 · Evidence synthesis on execution loops vs interactive assistance, covering SWE-bench, METR, and industry telemetry

Agentic Development Tools

Paper · January 2026 · Architectural comparison of Claude Code, Goose, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot

Spec-Driven Development

Paper · January 2026 · Comprehensive analysis of enterprise-grade SDD frameworks including BMAD, SpecKit, and OpenSpec

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