What actually works
when running AI agents

Benchmarks, tradeoffs, and hard-won lessons from building with AI agents in production. No hype, just data.

Structured specs beat prose for AI agent execution

We gave five models the same multi-step workflow as both a JSON spec and a prose paragraph. JSON produced 37% better execution quality and eliminated improvisation entirely.

37% quality improvement
5 models tested
0 improvisation with JSON
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