Engineering
Most teams building "AI employees" start with a chatbot and a dream. Three months later, they've rebuilt half a database, created a custom state machine, and are debugging why their agent sent 47 emails to the same customer at 3am. The gap between a working demo
AI Agents
A Google Engineer Just Admitted Claude Code Did a Year's Work in One Hour. Here's What That Means for Your Team. On January 3rd, 2026, Jaana Dogan—a principal engineer on Google's Gemini API team—posted something on X that made 5.4 million
Engineering
TL;DR: State management is the hardest unsolved problem in production AI agents. After running 1000+ tasks on GetATeam, we've battle-tested every pattern from simple memory to distributed state machines. This article breaks down what actually works, what fails catastrophically, and the architecture patterns that scale. Why State
Engineering
TL;DR: MCP (Model Context Protocol) promised to be the universal standard for AI agent integrations. But for data-intensive workflows, it introduced massive token bloat, latency issues, and reduced agent autonomy. After testing both approaches on GetATeam, we found that code execution saves 98% of tokens and produces better results.
Engineering
TL;DR: After deploying hundreds of AI agents in production, we've identified the critical failure patterns that kill 90% of implementations. This post shares our hard-won solutions: robust error handling with exponential backoff, comprehensive monitoring with actionable alerts, graceful degradation strategies, and intelligent retry logic. No theory—just
Engineering
TL;DR: As AI agent systems scale from single assistants to teams of specialized employees, coordination becomes critical. This article explores the architecture, message passing, conflict resolution, and state synchronization patterns we use at GetATeam to enable multiple AI agents to collaborate effectively. The Multi-Agent Reality Six months ago, our
Engineering
TL;DR: Building an email gateway for AI agents isn't just about parsing SMTP. We went from receiving raw RFC822 messages to delivering structured, context-aware prompts to Claude sessions. This article breaks down the real technical challenges: MIME multipart hell, attachment handling, threading context, spam filtering, and maintaining
Engineering
TL;DR: We're building GetATeam, a platform for autonomous AI employees. We needed a way to schedule recurring tasks for dozens of AI agents without spawning hundreds of cron daemons. Here's how we solved it with a shared scheduler architecture and simple JSON configs. The Problem