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      <title>Umar&#039;s Garden</title>
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    <title>Agent Access Should Be Narrower Than Human Access</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/AI/Agent-Access-Should-Be-Narrower-Than-Human-Access</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ AI agents should not inherit the broadest access path available to a human operator. That sounds obvious, but it is easy to violate in practice. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Agent Memory Is Retrieval Policy, Not Storage</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/AI/Agent-Memory-Is-Retrieval-Policy,-Not-Storage</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Agent memory is not mainly a storage problem. Storing more text is easy. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>LLM Maintained Knowledge Bases Need Boundaries</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/AI/LLM-Maintained-Knowledge-Bases-Need-Boundaries</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ LLMs are useful for maintaining a personal or team knowledge base, but only when the boundaries are explicit. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>System of Record vs Agent Layer</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/AI/System-of-Record-vs-Agent-Layer</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ An AI agent should usually not become the system of record. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>What RAG Actually Solves (and What It Doesn&#039;t)</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/AI/What-RAG-Actually-Solves-(and-What-It-Doesn't)</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Retrieval-Augmented Generation is the most common pattern for grounding a language model in documents the model was not trained on. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AI</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/AI/</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Notes on AI systems, agents, and knowledge management. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>About</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/About</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ I am Umar Hadi, a Senior Platform Engineer based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>A Postmortem for Myself: How I Recover After a Bad Week</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/Career/A-Postmortem-for-Myself-How-I-Recover-After-a-Bad-Week</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ I used to treat bad weeks as personal failure. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Feeling of Importance at Work (Without Ego Games)</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/Career/Feeling-of-Importance-at-Work-Without-Ego-Games</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Most teams underestimate one basic human need: to feel that we matter. When this need is neglected, people do not become neutral. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Financial Independence for Engineers in Emerging Markets</title>
    <link>https://notes.umarhadi.dev/Career/Financial-Independence-for-Engineers-in-Emerging-Markets</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ For many engineers in emerging markets, career strategy is not just about titles. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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