AI Engineer · August 12, 2026

Designing Agents (The Floor Is the Frontier) — Ben Hylak, Raindrop

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Why it matters

Build the thousand example eval suite everyone tells you to build, switch harnesses, and 80% of it stops meaning anything. Ben Hylak's complaint is that eval advice is still written for the chatbot era, back when you knew the answer to nearly every question a user would ask.

My takeaway: Designing Agents (The Floor Is the Frontier) — Ben Hylak, Raindrop is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.

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