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March 2026
The Agentic Design Library as published in March 2026 — preserved exactly as it appeared on the homepage that month. Reading list of 9 essay-style pieces.
MDPI AI
March 10, 2026
LLM-Augmented Algorithmic Management: A Governance-Oriented Architecture
Peer-reviewed paper
Governance-oriented architecture for LLM-augmented algorithmic decision systems. Treats verification and governance as first-class system components rather than auxiliary safeguards.
researchgovernanceHugo Bowne-Anderson · with Sebastian Raschka
January 15, 2026
LLM Architecture in 2026: What You Need to Know
Sebastian Raschka
Current state of LLM and agent architectures: what changed, what's stable enough to build on, and what to ignore. From the author of Ahead of AI.
architecturefundamentalsAndrej Karpathy
December 29, 2025
2025 LLM Year in Review
Andrej Karpathy
Karpathy's year-end recap of LLM developments in 2025 — what shifted, what stuck, and what the agentic engineering inflection point looks like up close.
retrospectiveagentic engineeringLatent Space
December 15, 2025
Software 3.0: Software in the Age of AI
Andrej Karpathy (talk transcript)
Karpathy's follow-up to Software 2.0: three eras of software (1.0 hand-written, 2.0 trained, 3.0 prompted). Natural language as the new programming surface; intent specification as the new skill.
frameworkphilosophyagentic engineeringMicrosoft Cloud Blog
December 4, 2025
Single Agents to AI Teams: The Rise of Multi-Agentic Systems
Microsoft
Microsoft's framing of the shift from single-agent products to multi-agentic teams. Coordinating agents, sub-task allocation, and what enterprise deployment looks like.
multi-agententerprisearXiv
October 12, 2025
Fundamentals of Building Autonomous LLM Agents
Trends in Autonomous Agents (TUM seminar)
Technical report surveying the architecture and implementation methods of LLM-powered autonomous agents. Perception, reasoning, planning, memory, and execution as the canonical subsystems.
researcharchitectureArtificial Intelligence Review (Springer)
September 1, 2025
Agentic AI: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Applications, and Future Directions
Peer-reviewed survey
Academic survey of agentic AI. Taxonomies of agent architectures, deployment patterns across domains, evaluation methodology, and open research directions.
researchsurveyacademicAnthropic
August 12, 2025
Managed Agents
Anthropic Engineering
Anthropic's framing of managed agents as long-running services. Lifecycle management, resumption, persistence, and the operational surface around durable agent execution.
managed agentsproductionlifecycleLil'Log
May 1, 2025
Why We Think
Lilian Weng
On test-time compute and reasoning in LLMs. Process reward models, beam search optimization, and why smaller models with better inference can dominate larger ones on certain tasks.
reasoningtest-time compute