Research Notes

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Notes

Short, research-informed writing on Claude, prompting, agentic systems, and the broader field. Between book editions, we keep writing.

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Prompting
The Ten Prompting Mistakes We See Most Often

The failure patterns that appear in almost every beginner session — and how to fix each one.

April 2026  ·  12 min
Agentic Systems
What "Agentic" Actually Means in 2026

The word is everywhere and means different things depending on who's using it. Here's the precise definition we work with.

April 2026  ·  8 min
Claude Code
The Mental Model Shift Required for Claude Code

Claude Code is not a better chat interface. It's a different kind of system that requires a different way of thinking about AI assistance.

March 2026  ·  10 min
Research
When to Trust Claude's Research Outputs

A researcher's guide to calibrating trust: what Claude does reliably, where it consistently falls short, and the verification protocols we use.

March 2026  ·  7 min
Multi-Agent
Orchestrating Claude With Other AI Systems

Patterns and anti-patterns from our research into multi-agent architectures. Coming soon.

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Ethics
The Hallucination Problem Is Not Solved

An honest look at the current state of LLM hallucination research and what it means for practitioners. Coming soon.

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