Corbits Blog
Field notes from humans about agents
Musings from our team, friends, and peers about the most interesting things in artificial intelligence and software.
· Open Source
8 Open-Source Alternatives to Popular SaaS and AI Tools
Explore eight open-source and self-hosted alternatives to popular SaaS and AI tools, from Supabase and Nextcloud to Buzz, n8n, and AI assistants.
· Buzz
Jack Dorsey's Buzz: The Open-Source AI Discord Killer?
Explore Buzz, the open-source workspace where AI agents work alongside humans as community members, and how its ideas overlap with Corbits.
· AI Agent Budgets
Can AI Agents Manage Their Own Budgets? What Actually Works in Practice
Can AI agents safely manage their own budgets? Learn where agents can optimize spending and why infrastructure must enforce their limits.
· Agent Orchestration
AI Agent Orchestration vs. Workflows: What's the Difference?
Learn how AI agent orchestration combines structured workflows with autonomous decision-making to create governed, durable, and auditable multi-agent systems.
· ChatGPT Voice
ChatGPT Voice Control for AI Agents: Uses & Limits
See how ChatGPT voice control can direct AI agents hands-free, run searches, and verify work, plus what voice changes for automated workflows.
· Agent Wallets
Agent Wallets Explained: How Cloudflare, x402, and AP2 Are Building Payment Rails for AI Agents
Learn how AI agent wallets work and how Cloudflare, x402, and Google AP2 enable autonomous payments with spending limits, authorization, and control.
· AI Agents
How to Write a Job Description for an AI Agent: 7 Essential Elements for Governance
Learn how to write an AI agent job description that defines roles, permissions, decision authority, guardrails, and escalation paths for better AI governance.
· Agent Operations
The AgentOps Stack in 2026: Monitoring, Governance, and Audit Tools Compared
Compare five tools for building an AgentOps stack across runtime enforcement, governance, observability, data security, and adaptive access control.
· AI Governance
AI Business Automation Tools: Why Agent Governance Is the Missing Piece
AI business automation now spreads through workflow builders, embedded productivity tools, and custom agents. Governance is what keeps those systems visible, accountable, and safe to scale.
· Private AI
The AI Privacy Illusion: Why We Partnered with NEAR AI for Verifiable, Private Agent Workflows
Corbits is partnering with NEAR AI to bring private inference, secure agent runtimes, and verifiable provenance to neoteam workflows.
· Agentic AI
The Agentic AI Stack: Why the Future Belongs to Builders, Not Monolithic AI Platforms
The agentic AI stack combines models, tools, context, identity, and payments. Learn why modular infrastructure gives businesses more control over how AI agents operate.
· AI Agents
Are AI Agents the New Shadow IT?
AI agents create a new kind of shadow IT: unmanaged systems that can act across tools, spend money, and change records. Here's how visibility, identity, and auditability reduce the risk.
· Platform Engineering
What Is Platform Engineering, and Why Does It Matter?
Platform engineering turns proven delivery practices into self-service paths. Here is why that matters for developer productivity, complexity, and AI systems.
· AI Automation
Beyond the Chatbot: 8 Advanced AI Use Cases for Enterprise Automation
Discover 8 real-world AI automation use cases helping businesses streamline workflows, improve decision-making, and accelerate growth.
· Neoteams
Neoteams: How Human-AI Collaboration Actually Works
A practical guide to neoteams: how humans and AI agents divide work, collaborate, and govern shared workflows without losing judgment.
· AI Tools
The 6 Essential AI Tools for Business
Streamline your operations with the 6 essential AI tools for business. Go beyond basic chatbots with Claude Code, MCP servers, and browser automation.
· AI Agents
AI Agent Budgeting: Set Spend Limits Before You Deploy
Set practical AI agent budgets before deployment. Learn to cap transactional and operational spend, track usage, and prevent unexpected API bills.
· Agent Operations
AgentOps: AI Agent Monitoring, Governance & Cost Control
What is AgentOps? Learn how to monitor AI agents, govern their actions, track performance, and control costs as autonomous systems move into production.
- Multi-Agent Systems
· Multi-Agent Systems
Context Loss in Multi-Agent Systems: Why Agent Handoffs Fail
Multi-agent LLM systems do not fail because of bad agents. They fail at the handoffs. Here is why context loss happens and what structured state to pass instead.
· Agent Operations
Every Business Has Agent Operations
We've had over 100 conversations with teams building at the frontier. Agent Operations isn't a role — it's a business unit. Here's what we've learned.
- Neoteams
· Neoteams
Modern Teams are Neoteams
A neoteam is a modern team where humans and AI agents work side by side — governed, auditable, and built to scale. Here's what that means for your organization.
- AI
· AI
Nansen's CEO on Running 75 Claude Agents, the Trust Ladder, and Why Trading Goes Agentic
Alex Svanevik joins The Index Podcast to explain how Nansen runs 75 Claude agents internally, why agentic trading needs a trust ladder, and what happens when AI agents handle real money onchain.
- AI
· AI
How to Orchestrate AI Agents Using Workflow Engines
AI orchestration is an effective way to maximize your computing infrastructure. Learn how workflow engines like Temporal and LangGraph coordinate agents into reliable, scalable systems.
- AI
· AI
What Anthropic's Opus 4.7 Means for Agentic Infrastructure
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with a 13% coding lift, 3x vision resolution, and a new effort tier. Here's what it means for teams building agent-powered systems.