From REST to MCP (1/2): Different Dimensions
Intro An MCP server can look like another API layer: expose existing REST endpoints as...
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How a preinstall hook silently ran malware on npm install
On July 11 2026, npm install jscrambler ran a Rust infostealer before the package finished installing. The attack anatomy and what to audit in your pipeline.
Skill Bodies Should Load on Demand
Skill Bodies Should Load on Demand A good skill system has two jobs that pull in opposite...
Stop Symlinking Your Cursor and Claude Code Rules — Generate Them Instead
If you use both Cursor and Claude Code on the same repo, you have probably noticed both tools support...
Building a minimal, fully modular AI desktop assistant — is there a market for "less bloated" agents?
I'm considering building an AI desktop assistant - web research, document drafting, file management,...
AI is reducing quality
Once upon a time in 2018 I posted a few of my written articles to Reddit and got some...
This week in Cursor + .NET — 8 rules + 1 essay (week ending July 12, 2026)
A weekly digest from the Agentic Architect persistence kit: 8 senior C#/.NET rules and 1 new essay for engineers keeping Cursor honest across sessions.
How to let an AI agent work in your repo without leaking your secrets
Coding agents now run with your shell. They read your files and run your build. They push commits...
Let an AI clear out your false positives without letting it hide a real bug
Last time I wrote about wiring up a security gate that blocks merges in CI with Synapse. Someone left...
Logs are claims. Receipts are proofs.
Your AI agent just refunded a customer, deleted a database table, or emailed a spreadsheet to the...
Stop Prompting and Start Engineering: Treating LLMs as Unreliable Functions
Why treating LLMs like magic boxes leads to flaky code, and how to implement a deterministic wrapper around non-deterministic outputs.
Let Claude Code Improve Itself Unattended — An Autopilot That Uses Cost to Stop Runaways
This is the 8th installment in my "Claude Code environment" series. In the article on turning...
How to Build a RAG App in Next.js (2026 Guide) — Claude, Pinecone, Voyage AI
If you've tried to build an AI app that answers questions about your own content — docs, PDFs, a...
How would you test whether an AI understands your codebase?
A question I can't stop chewing on, and I want your answer more than I want your agreement. How...
🇮🇳 ForThePeople.in: One Engineer’s Quest to Put Every Indian District’s Data in Your Pocket
_A free, real-time, open-source civic transparency platform that aggregates scattered government data...
Building EdgeSync-LLM: The Final Architecture for Decentralized, Offline-First Local AI 🚀
Published: true Description: A deep dive into the final version of...
Egregor: Local Multi-AI Consilium for Comprehensive Smart Contract and Code Audits
Author: Vladislav Shter, Solo-founder of the Sovereign Ecosystem Last Updated: July 2026 Finding...
The "4 layers to stop Claude lying" setup is a duct-tape stack. Here's what a single hook does instead.
A viral post made the rounds recently: "How to Make Claude Code Stop Making Stuff Up When It Doesn't...
Every engineering metric gets gamed. One of them structurally can't.
Lines, commits, velocity, DORA, even churn — every metric that measures activity ends up gamed, because activity is cheap to produce. There is one number in a git history you can't...
Beyond the Model: Why Orchestration Is Becoming the Real Differentiator
The AI race has quietly changed. Most people just haven't noticed yet. The AI race has quietly...
The Physics of Bounded Rationality: Why AI Needs a "Cognitive Mechanics" Engine
@kungfufk Since the dawn of computing, we have built Artificial Intelligence on a flawed premise:...
Checkpoint-Skip Gate: Task Success 100%, Checkpoint Never Ran
Checkpoint-skip gate: a multi-agent pipeline can finish with task_success: true while the mandatory...
Extracting Invoices From WhatsApp Photos With AI Vision (Apps Script + Google Sheets)
Every logistics and field-sales team runs the same expensive process: a driver photographs a receipt...
How I Prepare for Fall Burnout Season (as a Dev Who Barely Sees Sunlight)
Every September I go through the same cycle: energy crashes, I get sick right when a sprint deadline...