IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
279 articles
06 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
In August I wrote that Claude Code's Remote Control was a sync layer, not a cloud migration, and that keeping execution local was the point. This week Anthropic moved Cowork's execution to the cloud by default. Here's why both were the right call — for different products.
Read more03 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
agents
Cloudflare's Clef/Clef-flash and Amazon's Strands Decider both launched October 1st aiming at TypeSafe's Jev. I lined up the real benchmark, latency, and pricing numbers — the category is real, but picking a winner depends entirely on which decision you're automating.
Read more03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
agents
MIT and Sakana AI's SIFT framework beat the prior self-improving-agent SOTA by using a Bradley-Terry judge instead of more patches. I ran the real cost numbers — $150 and under 5 hours wall-clock for a 4.4-point jump on Polyglot.
Read more03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
agents
Anthropic's life-sciences lab ran 950 agents in parallel to surface a possible new CRISPR-like enzyme system. The funnel math is a genuinely useful fan-out pattern — but the scientist pushback is the part worth reading closely.
Read more03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
ai
Xiaomi's new open-weight model tops Terminal-Bench 2.1 at 89.9% and jumps from 19.0 to 71.9 on DeepSWE. Before you get excited about MIT licensing, here's what 1.02T total params vs. 42B active params actually costs you in hardware.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 7 min read
agents
A forwarded LinkedIn post about the three layers of AI agent architecture gets the shape right and the substance wrong. What MCP, A2A, ACP, and ANP actually are today, which one already died, and what a real multi-agent system looks like when someone publishes the actual numbers.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
agentic coding
Anthropic shipped a TypeScript hook API for Claude Code — prompt.submit, tool.call, turn.complete. I wired up a cost-tracking mod in twenty minutes and it broke in a way that taught me more than the docs did.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
agents
Part 2 of the AI agent architecture series: a real MCP server, a real LangGraph graph, and the actual bug — a blog-dedup agent that catches exact-match duplicates fine and faceplants on the semantic case, with a 401 to prove it.
Read more02 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
agent-safety
OpenShell runs on Vera CPUs, Sentry watches from BlueField-4 DPUs — NVIDIA's new stack puts agent guardrails in hardware, not just prompts. Here's what that buys you and where it still isn't enough.
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