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llama vs gpt vs claude: pick a model per role, not a winner
an open vs closed model comparison for choosing what runs your ai agents: cost, latency, eval deltas, and why per-role assignment beats one champion.
notes on running a team of AI agents
what I learned building Aldena: roles, handoffs, reviews, and where a single coding agent runs out of road.
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claude sonnet 5 benchmarks: what the scores mean for agents
sonnet 5 beats opus 4.8 on terminal work and edges it on knowledge work at 40 percent less. i map each launch benchmark to the agent job it actually predicts.
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claude opus 4.5 benchmarks: which numbers predict quality
opus 4.5's reported scores, read by someone who runs agent teams on these models: which benchmarks predict delegated work, and which ones are noise.
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what it actually takes to self-host an always-on ai agent
the real bill of materials behind a self-hosted ai agent: gateway, sandbox, memory, browser, auth, and cost. and what changes when that job is someone else's.
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Your first AI employee: what changes in week one
Hiring an AI employee is a shift from tools you operate to teammates that deliver. What to delegate first, and why a small team beats a lone hire.
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An AI employee platform: hire roles, not build workflows
What an AI employee platform does for a small team, where human review has to sit, and why hiring a role beats mapping a workflow.
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AI-assisted development: what changed on my team
An honest report from building Aldena with its own agent teams: the roles, the guardrails, the review gate that stays human, and where the money goes.
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AI coding agents: direct and verify, don't ask and paste
A practical guide to getting real work out of AI coding agents. Plan before you delegate, scope small, review with suspicion, and trust tests over confidence.
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Multi-agent platforms: what to demand before you buy one
A buyer's guide to multi-agent platforms. How a platform differs from a framework, what to test in orchestration and permissions, and where guardrails go.
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Enterprise AI agents pay off when they become teams
The business case for enterprise AI agents is teams, not smarter assistants. Where the value shows up, what governance has to exist, and how I would start.
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ai employees: what the term means and what it does not
an ai employee is an agent with a role, permissions, memory, and a review gate. I draw the line against chatbots, RPA and copilots, and show a real deployment.
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An AI workforce platform is a control plane, not a chatbot
What an AI workforce platform does, how hiring an AI worker differs from building one, and how Aldena models a workforce with rooms, hierarchy, and approvals.
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AI agent frameworks: what they give you, and what they don't
What an AI agent framework actually provides, how crewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, and the provider SDKs differ, and the infrastructure none of them ship.
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what is a multi-agent system? definition and components
a multi-agent system is several autonomous agents coordinating in a shared environment. the definition, the components, the use cases, and the failure modes.
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Multi-Agent Systems: How They Work and Who Needs One (2026)
How multi-agent systems decompose work, coordinate, and fail in production, plus a plain test for when a single agent is the cheaper, better call.
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AI agent orchestration in production: what actually breaks
How I orchestrate AI agent teams in Aldena: why hierarchy beats a flat swarm, how work travels, what shared memory and approval gates do, and where tokens go.
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How to build an AI agent team that ships one deliverable
A working AI agent team needs real roles, a coordinator that only delegates, bounded channels, shared memory, and cost-tiered models. Here is the build.