Designing with AI

Two Years, 15 Chapters: The Multi-Agent Systems Book Is Finally Here!

It took only 2 years-ish, but I finished writing the multi-agent systems book and it is now available!

Nov 14 • 

Victor Dibia, PhD

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October 2025

/upgrade ... or ...

somber reflections on how AI coding tools are changing developer behavior, cognition, and dependency (the slope we are all sliding down)

Oct 27 • 

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Building with Agent Framework - Day 1: Block, Transform, and Control Agent Behavior with Middleware

#47 | Add reusable validation, security, and logging without touching your core agent logic

Oct 6 • 

Victor Dibia, PhD

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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Semantic Kernel + AutoGen)

#46 | If Semantic Kernel and AutoGen joined forces …

Oct 1 • 

Victor Dibia, PhD

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August 2025

MCP For Software Engineers | Part 2: Interactive & Long-Running Tools (Progress streaming, User Input, Cancellation), Resources & Prompts

#45 | A deep dive into implementing Tools, Resources, Prompts, Roots in the MCP

Aug 1 • 

Victor Dibia, PhD

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July 2025

MCP For Software Engineers | Part 1 : Building Your First Server

#44 | New to MCP? Heres how to build your first MCP server and a Host Application that integrates and uses the server.

Jul 2 • 

Victor Dibia, PhD

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June 2025

... Why I write about AI ...

#43 | 6000 subscribers, and my reflections on why I write about AI .. and why you should too!

Jun 17 • 

Victor Dibia, PhD

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4 UX Design Principles for Autonomous Multi-Agent AI Systems

#42 | A summary from a keynote talk I gave at the 2025 AI.Engineer World's Fair Conference.

Jun 6 • 

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May 2025

What Types of Agents are Companies Building? A YCombinator Analysis

#41 | An in-depth analysis on Agentic AI startups using data from the YCombinator startup accelerator.

May 26 • 

Victor Dibia, PhD

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Top 10 Announcements from Microsoft Build 2025 - AI Agents Grow Up!

#40 | Agents grow up!

May 20 • 

Victor Dibia, PhD

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How will AI Impact Academic Research (and Publishing) by 2027?

#39 | A thought experiment on how advances in strong AI could completely drive the scientific research process in the near future.

May 14 • 

Victor Dibia, PhD

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On Sycophant AI: Unpacking the Yes-Machine Crisis

#38 | AI that is both powerful but also supplicant (agrees with you irrespective of truth) can have serious unintended negative side effects

May 5 • 

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