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MCP + Skills: The New Interface for Engineering Work
There’s a type of cognitive overhead that engineers have normalized so completely they stopped noticing it.
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Streaming in LLM Agents Isn’t Just a UX Feature. It’s an Architecture Decision.
Most teams add streaming to their AI products because it feels faster.
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·7 min read
Building Internal Chatbots That Actually Work
Every company I’ve worked with has the same problem dressed in different clothes.
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·12 min read
The Unit Economics of AI Products
Traditional SaaS has a comforting property: infrastructure costs are largely fixed.
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Caveman Prompting: I Tested the Claim. The Real Finding Is Somewhere Else.
There’s an idea that circulates in AI engineering circles called “caveman prompting.” The premise: write your instructions in stripped-down, telegraphic English — almost no grammar, no courtesy, just the bare intent — and the model will still deliver.
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·11 min read
Designing AI Products That Users Actually Trust
Getting the architecture right is necessary.
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·12 min read
How to Build AI Agents That Don’t Collapse in Production
The previous chapter made the case for workflows.
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·9 min read
You Don’t Need an Agent. You Need a Workflow
Agents are everywhere in the AI conversation right now.
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·8 min read
The AI Stack Trap
Every week there’s a new framework, a new model, a new tool that promises to change how you build AI products.
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·7 min read
The AI Product Trap
Most AI products look great in a demo.
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·3 min read
The model that learned to worry
Sonnet 4.5 developed something that looks a lot like anxiety. It’s not. But it’s worth thinking about why it happened.
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The 'Devs Are Dead' Narrative Is Selling You a Half-Truth
Every week, a new headline tells you software engineers are becoming obsolete.
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