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A chatbot with links looks more reliable than one without. It is not necessarily more reliable. The citation can be real, the page can exist, and the claim attached to it can still be something the source never said.
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Why a trained model goes stale, how retrieval fixes it, and what teams actually build with RAG once they have it.
Agent Engineering
Seven builds that take an agent from a single loop to a coordinated, gated, resumable system. Each part is a working instrument, not a diagram.
The agent is not hallucinating when it tells you to fix a bug you fixed yesterday. It is quoting the file contents it read at 2:00pm, faithfully, from a session that has no way of knowing the file moved.
A stronger prompt can make a review more thorough. Splitting the work decides whether the fourteenth file is read as carefully as the first. This project builds a multi-pass review pipeline from scratch and measures the difference.
Prompt instructions shape behaviour. Hooks decide what the application will allow. This project builds both hook points from scratch and shows why prevention has to sit before execution, not after it.
A better prompt can make a mistake rarer. A gate in your code can make a specific mistake impossible. This project shows where each belongs, and builds a refund tool that refuses to run until its prerequisites are met.
A good multi-agent system is not just the right subagents. It is a coordinator that can actually call them, and handoffs that carry every claim's origin with it. These are implementation problems, not theory problems.
Split a hard job across several AI agents and it can get faster or it can get chaotic. The difference is a coordinator that owns the plan, controls what each agent sees, and checks whether the combined result actually answers the request.
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