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		<title><![CDATA[Code Over Context: Distilling Written Agent Skills into Deterministic Tools]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Why prompt-heavy agent skills fail in production, and how to architect an Elastic Cognitive Envelope that distills frontier reasoning into deterministic code.]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Why prompt-heavy agent skills bloat context, drift across turns, and break on light models, and how to architect an Elastic Cognitive Envelope that distills frontier reasoning into deterministic code for fast serverless and on-device runtimes.]]></itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why prompt-heavy agent skills fail in production, and how to architect an Elastic Cognitive Envelope that distills frontier reasoning into deterministic code.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Hybrid AI Standard: Architecting On-Device AI with Cloud Run]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Architect production hybrid AI. Learn how to route between on-device Gemini Nano and cloud Gemini 3.1 Pro using Firebase AI Logic, App Check, and Cloud Run.]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>03:01</itunes:duration>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Why pure cloud and pure on-device AI both fail production workloads, and how to architect intelligent routing across the 4 Pillars of On-Device AI with Serverless Cloud Run backends.]]></itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Architect production hybrid AI. Learn how to route between on-device Gemini Nano and cloud Gemini 3.1 Pro using Firebase AI Logic, App Check, and Cloud Run.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title><![CDATA[The AI Agent Document Myopia Trap: The 4-Plane Triangulation Fix]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Eliminate AI agent tunnel vision. Learn why static docs cause state drift and how to architect 4-plane epistemic triangulation with Cloud Run and Firestore.]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>02:48</itunes:duration>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Why multi-turn AI agents fail when treating point-in-time documents as ground truth, and how to architect epistemic triangulation across living state, internal telemetry, external ecosystem baselines, and skeptical runtime verification.]]></itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Eliminate AI agent tunnel vision. Learn why static docs cause state drift and how to architect 4-plane epistemic triangulation with Cloud Run and Firestore.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Leaky Abstraction (Vol 2): Multi-Turn Agent State Transport]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Defend multi-turn agent streams against mid-flight disconnects and buffer drops. Learn how to architect stateful stream reassembly with Cloud Run and Firestore.]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>01:55</itunes:duration>
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		<itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Why multi-turn agent streaming fails when asynchronous tool execution exceeds TCP keep-alive thresholds, and how to architect idempotent stream reassembly with Cloud Run and Firestore.]]></itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Defend multi-turn agent streams against mid-flight disconnects and buffer drops. Learn how to architect stateful stream reassembly with Cloud Run and Firestore.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title><![CDATA[The AI Agent Split-Brain Trap: Building Transactional Memory for Agents]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Eliminate AI agent memory drift. Learn why markdown summary indexes fail and how to build transactional memory with Cloud Run and Firestore atomic updates.]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>01:45</itunes:duration>
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		<itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:author>Ibrahim Ulukaya</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Why stateful AI sidecars and autonomous agents hallucinate when static markdown summary files decouple from underlying entity state, and how to architect a real Single Source of Truth using Cloud Run and Firestore atomic transactions.]]></itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Eliminate AI agent memory drift. Learn why markdown summary indexes fail and how to build transactional memory with Cloud Run and Firestore atomic updates.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Leaky Abstraction: Why GenAI Streaming Breaks Your JSON]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Why LLM streaming crashes apps, how TCP fragments UTF-8 characters across chunk boundaries, and how to build stateful stream reassemblers in Node.js apps.]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>01:33</itunes:duration>
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		<itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Why LLM streaming crashes production apps, how TCP fragments UTF-8 characters across chunk boundaries, and the right way to build stateful stream reassemblers in Node.js.]]></itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why LLM streaming crashes apps, how TCP fragments UTF-8 characters across chunk boundaries, and how to build stateful stream reassemblers in Node.js apps.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title><![CDATA[Client-Side Runtime Agent Resilience: Defending Multi-Turn Streaming]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[How to defend production multi-turn agent streaming against TCP proxy timeouts, React/Vue memory thrashing on 100k+ contexts, and uncommitted tool state.]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>01:21</itunes:duration>
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		<itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:author>Ibrahim Ulukaya</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Why over 80% of agent failures in web and mobile apps are silent transport crashes, and how to architect client resilience with Firebase AI Logic, Cloud Run keep-alives, and App Check attestation.]]></itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[How to defend production multi-turn agent streaming against TCP proxy timeouts, React/Vue memory thrashing on 100k+ contexts, and uncommitted tool state.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Your AI Agent Agrees With Everything: 10 Cognitive Biases]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Why stateful AI agents fail differently than LLMs, and the 10 platform primitives that solve memory decay, sycophancy, path dependency, and action loops.]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>01:21</itunes:duration>
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		<itunes:author>Ibrahim Ulukaya</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Moving from isolated prompt prototypes to production agent architectures: How to architect stateful, memory-augmented systems using Cloud Run, Firestore, Vertex AI, and Remote Config.]]></itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why stateful AI agents fail differently than LLMs, and the 10 platform primitives that solve memory decay, sycophancy, path dependency, and action loops.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Reality of Firebase Spend Caps: Defending Against Prompt Loops]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Why Google Cloud spend caps operate as an asynchronous account fuse rather than an application rate limiter, and how to architect a 3-layer tokenomics defense.]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>01:24</itunes:duration>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Why Google Cloud spend caps operate as an asynchronous account fuse rather than an application rate limiter, and how to architect a 3-layer tokenomics defense.]]></itunes:subtitle>
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		<title><![CDATA[11 Principles of AI Tokenomics: From Prompt Discipline to Defense]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Why the 11 Principles of AI Tokenomics work in development, and why live application runtimes require code-level idempotency guards and circuit breakers.]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>01:22</itunes:duration>
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		<itunes:author>Ibrahim Ulukaya</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Alex Astrum and Luke Schlangen established the rules for developer token efficiency. Here is where those principles hold up, and why live application runtimes require code-level defense.]]></itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why the 11 Principles of AI Tokenomics work in development, and why live application runtimes require code-level idempotency guards and circuit breakers.]]></itunes:summary>
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