I Patented a Four-Sided Box. It's the Best Mental Model I Have for Building Agents.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/i-patented-a-four-sided-box-its-the-best-mental-model-i-have-for-building-agents. When my AI agents broke in production, I kept reaching for a bigger model. The fix came from a method I patented years earlier in chaotic Indian traffic. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #ai-agents, #computer-vision, #artificial-intelligence, #machine-learning, #ai-in-production, #llms, #deep-learning, #patent, and more. This story was written by: @amangoyal99. Learn more about this writer by checking @amangoyal99's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Every time my AI agents broke in production, my instinct was to reach for a bigger model and it almost never worked. A method I patented years ago in chaotic Indian traffic (a trapezoid bounding box instead of a rectangle) taught me why: the bottleneck is almost always how you represent the problem, not the size of the model. Six representation-first lessons on context, occlusion, evals, and the gap between a cool demo and an agent you'd trust to take real action for anyone shipping agentic AI.