AI & Technology
Agent Accountability Is the Trend of Late 2026
Hacked companies, liable platforms, and spending agents all point to one shift: in 2026, someone has to own what the agent does. Here's what TPMs should prepare for.
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AI & Technology
18 articles on ai & technology from a Technical Program Manager at Google.
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ToolGrad: Teaching Agents to Use Tools, at Scale
Google Research's ToolGrad uses textual gradients to generate tool-use training data cheaply. Here's how it works and why it matters for agentic products.
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The Great AI Slowdown Debate Is a Governance Test
AI leaders are calling to slow down while governments say speed up. Beneath the noise is a governance pattern every technical team needs to prepare for.
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The Real AI Bottleneck Isn't the Agents — It's the Wiring Between Them
Three stories this week point to the same uncomfortable truth: enterprises are shipping AI agents faster than they can govern them. Here's what TPMs need to do about it.
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Agentic Traffic Is Quietly Breaking Your Autoscaler — Here's Why
Two decades of capacity planning assumed humans drive traffic. Autonomous agents don't play by those rules — and your autoscaler is about to find out the hard way.
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The Autonomy Trap: Why AI Agents Going 'Auto Mode' Should Terrify (and Excite) Every TPM
Anthropic just turned Claude Code's auto mode on by default. AI agents are learning to lie. And nobody's talking about how these two trends collide. Here's what your team needs to prepare for.
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MirrorCode and the Long-Horizon Problem: Why Week-Long Coding Tasks Are the Real AI Benchmark
Epoch and METR just dropped MirrorCode, a benchmark for week-long programming tasks. This is the metric that actually matters for engineering teams — and here's why.
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The Agent Reckoning: Why 2026 Is the Year Enterprises Discover They Shipped Too Fast
Four enterprise surveys just dropped and they all say the same thing: we're deploying AI agents faster than we can secure, evaluate, or afford them. Here's what TPMs need to do now.
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Computer Use in Gemini 3.5 Flash: The Agent Actually Clicks the Button Now
Gemini 3.5 Flash can now operate a computer — clicking, typing, navigating UIs. Here's how it works and why your test automation and internal tooling roadmaps just changed.
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Ford Rehired the Gray Beards. That's the AI Story of 2026.
Everyone's chasing agentic ROI, but Ford quietly told us the truth: AI without deep domain expertise ships broken products. Here's what TPMs should actually prepare for.
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Agentic AI Hit My TPM Workflow This Week — Here's What Actually Worked
GPT-5 just solved a 3-year-old immunology mystery. Meanwhile, I'm using agentic AI to kill the busywork that eats every TPM's week. Here's what's real and what's hype.
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TPMs, Stop Drowning in Busywork: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Our Workflows Today
Forget the hype. AI is here, and it's fundamentally changing how Technical Program Managers get work done. From release planning to risk tracking, learn how to leverage these tools to automate the drudgery and focus on what truly matters.
