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4 posts tagged #agents.
Your LLM security diagram defends the wrong layer
The LLM security diagram you have seen a dozen times is a threat map. Read as a defence it makes you patch every box at the layer the attacker controls. The fix is one deterministic boundary the diagram leaves out, in code the model never touches.
The LLM is not a security boundary
Designing a production agent over sensitive data: no control makes the flow hole-free. You rank the layers, assume each one leaks, and stack them so no single hole reaches the data. Here is the code that does it.
Field Notes: The AgentCore Memory write that returns success and reads back empty
AgentCore long-term memory has a read-after-write gotcha the docs skip: a direct BatchCreateMemoryRecords write returns 201 and stays unsearchable for 15 to 30 seconds. Measured, with the two-tier model that explains it.
Every dashboard was green while the agent burned six figures a year
The most expensive AI agent failures don't throw an error, they hide. One ran at a six-figure-a-year rate for days while every dashboard stayed green, because the signals that catch it, per-session cost and anomalies, are the ones nobody watches. Why agent loops run away, and the two cost instruments your monitoring is missing.