Beyond Chatbots: Wrapping My RAG Agent in an MCP Server
In my last post, I walked through a RAG pipeline that answers questions from a company policy...
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Silence Has a Shape Now
Seventy-three comments into the thread, someone asked a question my gate had no answer for: what...
Token Drift Explained: Why Your Agent Gets Slower and More Expensive
Your agent feels fast during a demo. Then a real session reaches twenty turns, several tools have...
x402 Just Got a Standards Home. Who Conformance-Tests the Authority?
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on July 14 with the entire payments industry - and no conformance suite, security profile, or validation procedure. The industry i...
The Guardrail Has to Be Code: How a Runaway Local LLM Corrupted APFS and Bricked a Mac Mini
A background local LLM loaded 14B and 8B models on a Mac with a nearly full disk; unified memory overflowed, macOS tried to swap onto a disk with no room, and the failed writes cor...
AI Builders Make Apps LOOK Finished. Here Is How To Tell If Yours Actually Works.
You built something with an AI tool. It looked finished. You clicked around for a while, felt good...
I burned through thousands of AI tokens. Then a friend did it for free
(yep, kinda clickbait, just for the funsies 😊) At the beginning of the year, I relaunched my...
What if the safest Kubernetes fix is no fix at all?
AI-assisted DevOps and SRE tools are becoming more common. Tools like K8sGPT can scan Kubernetes...
Image models kept getting my App Store screenshots rejected, so I made my coding agent render them to exact spec
Like a lot of people shipping iOS apps this year, I tried generating App Store screenshots with image...
Make Your AI List Its Assumptions Before It Edits Code
The worst AI code changes start with a quiet guess. You ask for a small refactor. The tool finds a...
How to Build a Competitor Intelligence Agent with CrewAI and ZenRows
A competitor intelligence agent enables real-time pricing visibility, automated positioning tracking,...
AI Agent Infrastructure Is Splitting at the State Layer | Focused Labs
AI agent infrastructure is splitting at the state layer, where checkpoints, memory, identity, traces, policy decisions, and audit records accumulate.
Why Long Prompts Make AI Worse (And How to Fix Them)
Most people, when a prompt stops working, write more. They add clarifications, repeat instructions in...
We built an AI society that argues about outages - and it's 3x more reliable than one agent
How a team of Qwen-powered agents watch a live app, debate what broke, prove their fix against...
What is an "agentic harness," actually?
I've been hearing the word "harness" thrown around a lot lately. I assumed it just meant "the IDE" or...
RES, my personal safeguard against AI
The Problem The more I use AI in my daily life, the longer my conversations get. And the...
From 9% to 63%: Letting a Benchmark Build a Better MCP Security Proxy
I built an open benchmark to measure how much of the MCP (AI-agent) attack surface a defense actually covers — then used that number, one gap at a time, to drive a proxy from 9% to...
My Agent Shipped 3 PRs in an Evening. 40% of My Messages Were Corrections.
Let It Break, Part 3 Last night an agent session I was running submitted three pull requests to...
RAG in Laravel: Embeddings and pgvector for a Knowledge-Base Bot
In the last post we streamed AI responses over SSE. Now let's fix the problem every chatbot hits in...
How do you become a Forward Deployed Engineer? (2026)
The concrete 2026 path to an FDE offer: the skills, the three portfolio artifacts, and the 5-stage interview loop - including the case-study round that fails 60% of candidates.
an efficient .cursor directory: less context, better agents
how to structure your .cursor directory so agents start with the smallest useful context, spend fewer tokens, and produce faster, more focused results
Mastering Edge AI: How to Build High-Speed Vision Analyzers on Android
In the world of Deep Learning, there is a fundamental, almost violent tension: the computational...
Why Uber's $1,200 Claude Code Session Is Actually a Routing Problem
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. One executive racked up a $1,200...
Do We Need MCP Servers for Everyday Life?
Most people do not need another AI chatbot. We already have chatbots that can explain an electricity...