https://jamesm.blog/tags/reliability/ Recent content in Reliability on jamesm.blog https://jamesm.blog/papermod-cover.png https://jamesm.blog/papermod-cover.png Hugo en Fri, 15 May 2026 06:30:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/agent-reliability-debugging-non-deterministic/ Fri, 15 May 2026 06:30:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/agent-reliability-debugging-non-deterministic/ AI agents that work in the demo and fail in production are the standard story of the last two years. A practical look at why agent reliability is genuinely hard, what patterns have emerged for handling it, and which testing approaches actually work. https://jamesm.blog/ai/ai-agents-that-actually-work/ Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/ai-agents-that-actually-work/ The patterns that separate agents that ship and stay shipped from the ones that demo well and fall over the moment they meet a real workload. https://jamesm.blog/ai/ai-safety-first-principles/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/ai-safety-first-principles/ Stripping the AI safety conversation down to its load-bearing parts, separating the engineering problems that matter today from the speculative scenarios that absorb most of the attention. https://jamesm.blog/ai/ai-hallucinations-understanding-and-mitigating/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:02:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/ai-hallucinations-understanding-and-mitigating/ What hallucinations actually are, why the word is a slightly misleading import from psychiatry, why no model will ever stop producing them entirely, and the small set of techniques that genuinely move the dial on false outputs in production. https://jamesm.blog/ai/ai-reliability-is-weird/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://jamesm.blog/ai/ai-reliability-is-weird/ Traditional testing methods are failing in the age of autonomous AI agents. We need a new approach to ensure reliability when the 'builder' is non-deterministic.