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Architecture

Agent-to-agent protocols: the next open layer

With MCP solving the agent-to-tool layer, a parallel problem surfaces: how do two agents from different vendors communicate with each other. Google's Agent2Agent protocol, donated to the Linux Foundation in June 2025, tries to fill that gap with an open standard.

Artificial Intelligence

Phi-3 on the edge: Microsoft’s SLM in 2025

Phi-3 es la familia de modelos pequeños de lenguaje que Microsoft viene puliendo desde abril de 2024 con variantes de 3.800 millones, 7.000 millones y 14.000 millones de parámetros. Después de año y medio, el panorama del edge con SLM abiertos se ha vuelto serio y Phi-3 ocupa un sitio claro.

Artificial Intelligence

LLM guardrails: frameworks and their real cost

Guardrails frameworks promise to filter language-model inputs and outputs to block data leaks, harmful content, or hallucinations. After evaluating four of the most popular ones in production, I cover what they actually do, what latency and billing cost they add, and when they pay off over simpler controls.

Architecture

Inference routers: choosing a model based on the request

Un enrutador de inferencia decide qué modelo atiende cada petición en función de coste, latencia y complejidad. Bien diseñados reducen la factura de tokens sin que el usuario perciba degradación; mal diseñados introducen fallos sutiles difíciles de depurar.

Artificial Intelligence

Testing with AI: the determinism problem

Probar sistemas que incluyen modelos de lenguaje rompe la primera regla del testing: la misma entrada da la misma salida. Analizo las estrategias que han funcionado tras un año largo integrando IA en productos reales, por qué los tests deterministas tradicionales no bastan y cómo plantear un cinturón de pruebas que capture regresiones sin bloquearse en la varianza.

Architecture

Agent OS: the concept shaping the new stack layer

The term Agent OS has spent a year gaining traction across research and product circles. It describes a layer that goes well beyond an agent library: request scheduling, context management, persistent memory, and isolation. A look at the real state of that concept.

Artificial Intelligence

GPT-5: public availability and early impressions

After months of rumors, OpenAI released GPT-5 in early August. The first weeks of real-world use show a picture less spectacular than the marketing suggested and more useful than many expected. It is worth separating what is genuinely new from what is merely incremental.

Artificial Intelligence

The knowledge graph era is reborn with LLMs

For a decade, knowledge graphs were an academic idea with few real use cases, held back by the cost of building and maintaining the schema. LLMs have changed that equation: they now extract entities automatically and help anchor answers, audit reasoning, and support agents without hallucinating.

Architecture

Microsoft’s GraphRAG in enterprise: patterns that work

GraphRAG has been in real enterprise use for over a year: during indexing, an LLM builds a knowledge graph that answers global questions about a corpus well, precisely where classic RAG fails because no single chunk holds the full answer. Here I compare indexing costs, the cases where it pays off, and the hybrid pattern that teams have settled on.

Artificial Intelligence

o3 in public: the reasoning leap is confirmed

o3-mini, the first public release of OpenAI's o3 reasoning series, clearly improves logic, math, and complex code over GPT-4o, though it answers slower and still hallucinates facts. This analysis, based on weeks of real use, explains where it pays off and where it does not.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-assisted code review: an honest adoption story

Two years running AI-assisted code review in a real team leave a clear balance: AI catches mechanical oversights well and writes useful pull-request summaries, but it struggles with architectural judgment and produces many false positives on subtle bugs. The single decision that helped the most was not blocking merges on its automated comments.

Artificial Intelligence

NPU in the PC: faster, cheaper local AI

Qualcomm, Intel and AMD Copilot+ processors have normalised the presence of an NPU in everyday PCs. A 40 TOPS NPU can run quantised Phi-3 Mini drawing just 5-10 W, versus 40-50 W for a laptop GPU doing the same task. What actually changes for running AI models locally, and when it is worth it.