Dispatch
AI2 publishes what building Shippy taught them about building agents
Allen Institute for AI released an engineering post-mortem on Shippy, walking through what actually broke when building a production agent rather than a demo. First-party agent-engineering retrospectives from a research lab are rare — most agent content is vendor marketing — and it lands alongside The Pragmatic Engineer's context-engineering interview with Dex Horthy as part of a visible shift toward treating context management as the core discipline.
↳ Follow the thread