Insights — Sentient Arc

Field Notes

Practical explainers on agents, RAG, and automation — written for the people who have to ship and operate these systems.

2026-05-126 min read

What Is Agentic Development? A Field Guide for Operators

Agentic development builds software where an AI agent decides the next step — retrieving context, reasoning, calling tools, and checking its own work. Here is what that means in practice.

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2026-05-285 min read

RAG, Explained for Operators

Retrieval-augmented generation grounds a language model in your own documents, so it answers from your sources with citations instead of hallucinating. Here is how it works and when to use it.

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2026-06-096 min read

AI Automation vs. Traditional Automation

Traditional automation follows fixed rules; AI automation handles the judgment-heavy steps in between. Knowing where each fits is the difference between a system that scales and one that breaks.

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