Andrew Maryasov's blog on AI for business
Thoughts on AI without the fluff.
Cases, pitfalls, prompts that work. The things I wish I'd known before I broke everything myself.
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Watermarks in AI Text: What They Prove and What They Don't
A watermark, an AI detector and C2PA provenance: three different mechanisms that keep getting mixed up. None proves what people expect. A breakdown from primary sources and what Article 50 of the AI Act really requires.
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Where Your Agent's Intelligence Lives: Harness or Weights
Inherent trained Faraday, a 27B model: the same five-tool harness, only the weights differ — and it beats flagship models on 73% of in-distribution tasks (60% of held-out ones).
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Your Agent Monitor Measures Accuracy. Researchers Measure Evasion
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How Many AI Agents Do You Need: When a Fleet Beats One
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Why AI Agents Get It Wrong: Blame Retrieval, Not the Model
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System Prompt Security: How Much It Actually Buys You
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Who Should Learn Cowork and Where to Start
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AI Agent Blast Radius: How to Measure Risk Instead of Counting Tokens
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Local AI Models: When Data Never Leaves the Office
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AI Agent Costs: Why the Bill Grows as Tokens Get Cheaper
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llms.txt: Why the File Barely Affects AI Citations
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AI Agent Self-Improvement: Why It Doesn't Work Without Verification
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Reward hacking: how an AI agent will break your metric
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Which Automations to Implement First: 5 Steps in Order
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How I Evaluate a New AI Tool in 20 Minutes
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A Personal AI Health Assistant: How I Gathered My Labs, Genetics, and Context into One Folder
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Claude as a Travel Guide: Barcelona in 40 Minutes and a Prompt That Works in Any City
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A Personal AI Operating System: Six Months of Practice, by the Numbers
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My AI Stack 2026: What I Actually Use Every Day
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Software Is Now Text, Not Code
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The Best AI Tools for Business in 2026: 28 Picks
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AI agent vs chatbot: difference, price, when to choose what
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How to hire an AI consultant: a 12-question checklist
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AI consulting in Ukraine: when you need it and where to start
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