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Tech· 2026-05-29· 5min

The Smallest Agent That Works, Part 3: The Three Agents With State

Stateless agents fit most tasks. State is the most expensive capability you can add — it doubles your operational surface, breaks your debugging, and rewards exactly the use cases that can't survive without it. Memory, environment control, self-learning. Part 3 of three.

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Tech· 2026-05-26· 5min

The Smallest Agent That Works, Part 1: The Three Cheap Agents

Most agent stacks are built one tier too capable for the job. Three of the cheapest architectures — a fixed pipeline, an LLM with rule constraints, and a reasoning loop — solve more problems than the architecture diagrams admit. Part 1 of three.

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