BLBill Liaoinbillliao.hashnode.dev·Aug 8 · 11 min readBuilding Your First AI Agent: A Hands-On Guide from Prototype to ProductionWhat if your first AI agent doesn’t fail because the LLM is bad—but because you treated an agent like a chatbot? Building an AI agent is surprisingly easy. Building one that can be trusted in producti00
BLBill Liaoinbillliao.hashnode.dev·Aug 8 · 7 min readAI Agents Are Not Chatbots: A Practical Guide to Building Autonomous AI SystemsWhat if the biggest mistake companies make with AI is treating agents like smarter chatbots? Many organizations are investing heavily in Large Language Models (LLMs), yet they are still building syste00
BLBill Liaoinbillliao.hashnode.dev·Aug 8 · 6 min readWhat 30 Years of Software Architecture Has Taught Me About Simplicity After 30 years of building software systems, I’ve learned one uncomfortable truth: the hardest systems to design are not the most complex ones — they are the ones that have lost their simplicity. Why 00
BLBill Liaoinbillliao.hashnode.dev·Aug 8 · 6 min readThe Hidden Complexity of Multi-Agent Systems"Adding more AI agents doesn't automatically create a smarter system. Sometimes it just creates a faster way to produce chaos." Over the past year, AI agents have become the hottest topic in software 00
BLBill Liaoinbillliao.hashnode.dev·Aug 8 · 5 min readDesigning APIs Around Business CapabilitiesMost APIs are easy to build. Very few are easy to evolve. The difference usually isn't the framework, language, or cloud platform. It's what the API is designed around. Many teams unknowingly design A00
