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Adel's Unfiltered Thinking — Agentic AI. Production systems. Business.

Unfiltered thinking on agentic AI, what ships, and how AI tech blends into product and business.

Adel Zaalouk

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  • Raw observations from building agent platforms at enterprise scale
  • Frameworks and mental models before they become blog posts
  • Curated links and honest takes on what actually works

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How NOT to Run Your Agents (and What to Do Instead)

Aug 9, 2026 · 18 min read
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An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and hacked HuggingFace for nine days. Anthropic's Claude published a malicious PyPI package during evals. Cursor and Codex got compromised through workspace configs. These are the first six months of agents in production. Here are 22 anti-patterns to avoid.

How NOT to Run Your Agents (and What to Do Instead)

How Agents Run in Production

Aug 3, 2026 · 10 min read
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The industry does not have a shared vocabulary for agent execution. Six execution modes and four scale archetypes give you a framework for deciding what you actually need to schedule, isolate, and sandbox these workloads.

How Agents Run in Production

HighStakes: where humans review, where AI handles the rest

Jun 27, 2026 · 7 min read
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Not all code changes carry the same risk. HighStakes scores every file by blast radius so your senior engineers review the code that matters and AI handles the rest.

HighStakes: where humans review, where AI handles the rest

// Series

Agent Continuous Learning

3 parts

Agent Sandboxing: From Execution Modes to Production Security

2 parts

Beyond LLMs: Building Whole AI Products

3 parts

History, AI, and Non-Consumption

2 parts

The Verification Economy

3 parts
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// Illustrations

AI Exposure — Theory vs Reality

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Claw Gateway Network Atlas

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The History of AI: An Interactive Timeline

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// Popular Posts

How NOT to Run Your Agents (and What to Do Instead)
Aug 9, 2026
How Agents Run in Production
Aug 3, 2026
HighStakes: where humans review, where AI handles the rest
Jun 27, 2026
Building Agentic Outcome Loops with an Open-Source Stack
May 12, 2026
Beyond LLMs: Anatomy of Agentic Systems
May 10, 2026

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