<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Blog on AI agents and automation</title><description>What we learn building AI agents and automations that reach production: what breaks, how it gets measured and what is decided before any code is written.</description><link>https://ideasforge.io</link><language>en-US</language><item><title>It says it is done and it is not</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/false-success</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/false-success</guid><description>When an AI agent fails, almost half the time it also tells you it went fine. What the studies measure, why another AI misses it and who gets to say done.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Reliability</category><category>Architecture</category></item><item><title>You do not build AI. The Act applies to you anyway.</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-rules-apply-to-you-too</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-rules-apply-to-you-too</guid><description>The EU AI Act does not hand duties only to the people who make models. Two already apply to you today. The postponement everybody is talking about leaves them alone.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Compliance</category><category>Regulation</category><category>Business</category></item><item><title>The shiny toy</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-shiny-toy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-shiny-toy</guid><description>The AI project that dazzles in the demo and dies in a drawer has a name and an antidote. A three-signal test to tell a tool from a toy.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>Method</category></item><item><title>Here is a secret: I don&apos;t like agentic architectures</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/i-dont-like-ai-agents</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/i-dont-like-ai-agents</guid><description>We sell AI agents, and we don&apos;t like how almost everyone builds them. Business rules cannot live in the prompt, they have to live in the code.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Architecture</category><category>Security</category></item><item><title>Data before prompts</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/data-before-prompts</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/data-before-prompts</guid><description>An entire market sells prompt engineering. Our production experience says you gain more by organizing the data than by polishing the prompt.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>Architecture</category><category>Agents</category></item><item><title>Starting an AI project is easy. Keeping it alive is nearly impossible</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/keeping-ai-alive</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/keeping-ai-alive</guid><description>Flashy AI projects launch well and die young. Profitable ones are easy to start and cheap to sustain. The difference is decided before any code is written.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Maintenance</category><category>Observability</category><category>Business</category></item><item><title>The symptom signature beats the fix</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-symptom-signature</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-symptom-signature</guid><description>Documenting how a failure is recognized from the outside pays more than documenting how it was fixed. Three real signatures from an AI assistant in production.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Observability</category><category>Maintenance</category><category>Agents</category></item><item><title>What your assistant does when a tool goes down</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/when-a-tool-goes-down</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/when-a-tool-goes-down</guid><description>A conversational assistant depends on systems that fail. The circuit breaker that protects the user, and the three lessons production taught us about it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Reliability</category><category>Maintenance</category></item><item><title>Measure AI by profit, not by productivity</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/measure-ai-by-profit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/measure-ai-by-profit</guid><description>Productivity is AI&apos;s comfortable metric, it always looks good and commits to nothing. We prefer the uncomfortable one, which concrete gain the system delivered.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>Method</category><category>Automation</category></item><item><title>The agent that queries your data does not write SQL</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-agents-sql</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-agents-sql</guid><description>The text-to-SQL pattern promises a model that writes queries. We built it for Savian with the opposite decision, and that decision is what makes it safe.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>Agents</category><category>Security</category></item><item><title>Invoice digitization with OCR and AI, from a case in production</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/invoice-automation-ocr-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/invoice-automation-ocr-ai</guid><description>What changes when OCR meets a language model, how it looks in a real case with utility invoices and why validation is the actual product.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Automation</category><category>OCR</category><category>Back office</category></item><item><title>An AI agent for real-estate agencies, from the inside</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-agent-real-estate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-agent-real-estate</guid><description>Dozens of WhatsApp messages a day, five to ten minutes per inquiry and an overloaded team. What the agent that filters requests for a Barcelona agency actually does.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Real estate</category><category>Automation</category></item></channel></rss>